Eritrean refugees are threatened with repatriation (and death) July 19, 2014 Continue in Sudan the ordeal of more than 400 Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers were instead locked up for no reason in the prisons of Khartoum. The police of the African country, which is already home to 120 thousand refugees fled dallAsmara, it has captured 374 young men and 34 women (pregnant and some with children in tow) while they were heading towards the UNHCR refugee camp in Kassalaa after they had defected and had crossed the border. The group was stopped for unknown reasons to seek asylum and to speak, as their right, with the staff of the UN. Contacted by Future, the men were confirmed to be in prison Huda while the women were in one of Arebi, but they have gone missing and were feared to have been repatriated by force. The group of males was forcibly subjected to blood tests to see if among them there are people with HIV, hepatitis or tuberculosis. According to Sudanese law, in fact, an infected person would be enough to legitimize the return to Eritrea, even if this would result in imprisonment for desertion or even the death penalty for the NCOs. In the group there are some sufferers of hepatitis and tuberculosis, for which there is concern for their fate, in the absence of an intervention of UNHCR in Khartoum
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 02:00:24 +0000
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