"Guantanamo: Six years of injustice need to end
By Andy Worthington
Commentary by
Friday, January 11, 2008
Six years ago today, one of the most depressing icons of the 21st century opened for business. On January 11, 2002, the first of nearly 800 prisoners arrived at a...
""In cooperation with the Indonesian government, the Australian Immigration Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) have accomplished the repatriation of 16 Indonesian boat people," Chris Evans said on Monday.He said the Australian government had...
A few weeks ago, I reported on the sad crisis of Bhutanese refugees of Nepali descent living in refugee camps in the poor districts of Jhapa and Morang in eastern Nepal. Bhutan has refused to budge on the issue, arguing now that repatriating the refugees would be "importing...
BARELY two weeks after 113 Nigerians were deported
from the Maghreb state of Libya, no fewer than 75 were again at the
weekend repatriated from the United States of America. Brought
into the Murtala Mohammed Airport,...
"Italy and Libya have been accused of abusing the human rights of African migrants trying to enter the EU.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) group says Libyan and Italian authorities have forcibly repatriated thousands of foreigners.
Some of those faced possible...
The U.S. and Mexican governments have resumed a repatriation program to return Mexican nationals caught illegally in the United States to their hometowns in Mexico's interior.