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Asylum seekers: 'They didn't believe I was a child'
Burhan - not his real name - arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry, aged 16.
But authorities did not believe he was a child and instead placed him into the adult system, where he says he was attacked.
He is one of 137 child asylum seekers - identified by Newsnight - who have been wrongly classified as adults.
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