Amnesty slams Egypt’s forcible return of Eritrean refugees

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A group of 50 Eritrean refugees are at imminent risk of deportation from Egypt amid a spike in removals of undocumented migrants, Amnesty International has said on Friday. The refugees, including a baby and three children under seven, have been detained in the southern city of Aswan since the start of 2022, the rights group said. None of the Eritreans under threat of removal have had access to asylum procedures or the possibility to challenge their expulsion orders, according to Amnesty. “There is a well-documented pattern of those forcibly returned to Eritrea being interrogated, arbitrarily d…

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