Iran deports thousands of Afghans
BBC: More than 36,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran in the past 10 days, the UN refugee agency says.
The move has virtually cleared the south-eastern Iranian border town of Zabol of its Afghan population.
Iran says it has collected 50,000 Afghans for deportation, and argues it is the right of every country to send home illegal workers.
Iran is estimated to have more than a million illegal Afghan workers, and slightly fewer registered refugees.
Although the numbers seem to have slowed down a bit in the past few days, the sheer scale and speed of the deportations has caused problems...more Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi told the state-run news agency that 50,000 illegal Afghans have been collected for deportation in the past 10 days.
ABF, for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran
1 comment:
Thank you for letting me know about this! I have only watched very little news this week and haven't read too much on internet either, so I hadn't heard this. So sad!
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