عودة اللاجئين السودانيين انتهاك صريح للمواثيق الدولية

Quote: Sudanese will not be deported from Egypt By Michael Slackman The New York Times TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2006 CAIRO Egyptian officials said Tuesday that they would not deport any of 462 Sudanese migrants being held in jails and prison camps since the migrants were detained nearly three weeks ago after the riot police staged a deadly raid on a squatter camp the Sudanese had set up as a protest. Egypt reacted angrily to the international condemnation that poured in for the way its riot police charged into the square, using batons and leaving at least 27 people dead - including women and children. Nearly 3,000 people had moved into the square in a middle-class neighborhood, hoping their protest would pressure the United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees to relocate them to the west. While Egypt blamed the Sudanese and UNHCR for the crisis, it insisted that it acted within the law, with no official publicly raising questions concerning the way the police ultimately responded. Instead, the government threatened to deport more than 600 of the Sudanese who had been held for not having a proper visa - and only relented in that threat Monday, the same day that Vice President Cheney met in Cairo with President Hosni Mubarak. "After the UNHCR and the authorities look into their individual files and determine their status, they will be released," Nasser Hamzaoui of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday. But the government did not say when people would be released - and the UN office in Cairo continued to push for the immediate release of people from the area of Darfur, who would be more likely qualify for refugee status. Mona el Naggar in Cairo contributed reporting for this article.

(عدل بواسطة Adil Osman on 01-17-2006, 07:41 PM)