GENEVA
\nThe United Nations insisted no one should be sent back to Afghanistan, after Germany on Friday deported 81 Afghans convicted of crimes to their Taliban-controlled homeland.
\nThe UN rights office warned that surging numbers of Afghans being forced to return to their conflict- and crisis-torn country from elsewhere in the region especially but also further afield was creating \u201ca multi-layered human-rights crisis\u201d.
\n\u201cUN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk calls for an immediate halt to the forcible return of all Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers, particularly those at risk of persecution, arbitrary detention or torture upon their return,\u201d spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.
\nShe stressed that sending people, even those convicted of crimes, back to a country where they risk facing serious abuses \u201cviolates the core international law principle of non-refoulement\u201d.
\nThe comments came after Berlin said it had deported 81 Afghan men convicted of crimes in Germany, the second such operation.
\nGermany, like most countries, stopped deportations to Afghanistan and closed its embassy in Kabul following the Taliban\u2019s return to power in 2021.
\nBut it resumed expulsions last year, when the previous government of Social Democrat chancellor Olaf Scholz expelled 28 Afghan convicts.
\nFriday\u2019s deportations come as Afghanistan is already reeling from the returns of more than 1.9 million people since the beginning of the year from Iran and Pakistan.
\nIran has deported some 500,000 people in the past month alone, Shamdasani said. The UN warned last week that as many as three million could arrive by the end of the year.
\n\u201cPeople returning to Afghanistan, whether by compulsion or of their own volition, find a country facing an acute humanitarian and human-rights crisis,\u201d Shamdasani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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