The Guardian (UK): A Hazara man has said he is set to be deported to Afghanistan from an Australian immigration detention centre after a lawyer failed to lodge an appeal for his refugee claim. If the repatriation goes ahead, the 27-year-old man will be the fifth ethnic Hazara to face forcible deportation back to Afghanistan after seeking
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 23, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan has assured neighboring Afghanistan that peace talks with the Taliban “will resume in a month” to find a peaceful end to the Afghan conflict. Taliban-led insurgent violence has spiked in Afghanistan with the onset of spring, prompting fears this year could see record levels of bloodshed across
VOA News Mehdi Jedinia, Noor Zahid April 18, 2016 The rape and murder of an Afghan refugee girl in Iran has fueled outrage in Afghanistan and drawn diplomatic protest from Kabul. The six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and then murdered by her Iranian kidnapper last week in Varamin, a poor suburb of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The
Press TV April 17, 2016 The United Nations (UN) says the number of Afghans returning home from countries where they had sought refuge has hit a drastic low since 2001, amid continuing fighting and economic problems in the war-ravaged country. According to UN officials, some 2,200 refugees have returned to Afghanistan so far this year,
VOA News Hasib Danish Alikozai April 15, 2016 The Afghan government is finalizing agreements with some European member states and the European Union to handle the return of Afghan refugees, currently in limbo in Greece. The full details of the memoranda of understanding have yet to be announced, but Afghan officials have told VOA that
Press TV April 8, 2016 Greece has expelled a second group of refugees from its Lesbos island to Turkey as part of the controversial EU-Turkey refugee deal. A Turkish ferry departed from Lesbos on Friday with 45 refugees, who were all reportedly from Pakistan. It was the second batch of refugees deported under the deal.
VOA News Henry Ridgwell April 7, 2016 ATHENS—Among the tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece are many Afghan nationals. VOA spoke to several of them who claim they were forced to flee threats from the Taliban because they had worked with U.S. and coalition forces. Among them are Mohammed and Yusuf, who say
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 7, 2016 Lithuania took in a young Afghan migrant who worked as an interpreter for Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan after he reached out for help on YouTube. Lithuania provided Abdul Basir Yoususi with a temporary visa that paves the way for asylum for himself, his wife, and daughter, and had
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 6, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A new poll in Pakistan says a sweeping majority, or 90%, of its citizens, support blocking Afghans from entering the country without a visa in order to help counterterrorism efforts. The field survey of 1,755 men and women in rural and urban areas of all four Pakistani provinces
1TV: Two Afghan migrant men have been arrested for allegedly forcing a teenage boy to perform sexual acts at a swimming pool in Germany, local media reported. The 14-year-old boy faced the incident by the Afghan men, aged 20 and 25, in an indoor pool in Delbruck on Friday afternoon, according to German newspaper Westfalen-Blatt. Click here