Ramon Taylor VOA News February 1, 2019 NEW YORK — In the spring of 2016, Reshad, a 32-year-old Afghan, came to feel his life was on the line for “working with infidels” in his job as a civil engineer contracted to the U.S. military. “In a matter of seconds, I found myself being targeted, with four
DW: In an article designed to raise the hackles of those worried about foreigners and crime, German daily Bild reported on Thursday that Afghanistan had turned away an Afghan deportee with a long criminal record at its border and sent him back to Germany. “The individual was mentally ill and, as a result of a joint
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 8, 2019 Nearly 800,000 Afghan migrants returned or were deported back to Afghanistan from Iran in 2018 — an increase of two-thirds compared to the previous year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on January 8. Laurence Hart, the chief of the IOM mission to Afghanistan, said the trend
1TV: A total of eight athletes and three officials arrived in Sydney on October 18 and were due to depart together on 28th October. However, five athletes and one official didn’t arrive at the city’s airport to fly home with the rest of the team.“One of them actually said when he came and saw the people here
Reuters: European countries must not rush to repatriate Afghan refugees to their increasingly insecure homeland or blame their community for isolated crimes such as recent deadly attacks in Germany and in France, the top U.N. refugee official [Filippo Grandi] said on Monday. “There is a lot of pressure for Afghans to return. Our advice is to carry
1TV: In an interview with German’s Bild newspaper, Ghani said that it was crucial to keep Afghans from fleeing the country by exposing the “false belief that the streets in Germany are paved with gold. That’s not the case.” This is not the first time that Ghani criticizes migration of Afghans to Europe. In 2016, Ghani
The Telegraph (UK): Elin Ersson took action after learning that the man on the Gothenburg to Istanbul flight would be transferred to another plane and sent to Afghanistan, where she insisted he would probably be killed… The activist now faces fines or up to six months in jail for failing to comply with the instructions of the
MOSCOW, July 16 (Sputnik) – A prominent human rights watchdog on Monday denounced the deportations of Afghan asylum seekers at a time when the number of civilian casualties in the conflict-torn country has hit a new record as an “unconscionable” act and a “brazen” breach of international law. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 12, 2018 A German minister known for strong antimigrant rhetoric is under pressure to resign over the suicide of a failed Afghan asylum seeker after he was deported from Germany. Germany’s opposition parties called on Interior Minister Horst Seehofer to step down a day after Afghan authorities said a 23-year-old
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 11, 2018 The German Interior Ministry says one of the 69 Afghan asylum seekers deported from Germany last week committed suicide on his return home. “We received confirmation from the Afghan authorities today morning that one of passengers on the repatriation flight was found dead in accommodation in Kabul,” the