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After 31-Mile Trek In Tunnel, Sudanese Man Granted Asylum In The Uk

As the U.S. marks “National Migration Week” from Jan 3 to Jan 9, another record for migration endurance was set this week with the walk to freedom by Abdul Rahman Haroun of Sudan. Haroun, 40, was reported to have walked almost the entire length of the 31-mile Channel tunnel from France to the UK where trains travel up to 99 mph along the line. Initially arrested at the English end of the tunnel in August and charged with obstructing a railway, he was due to face trial this month. At a brief hearing at Canterbury crown court, the prosecutor Philip