Bayan News – Several international media outlets have reported that 90% of Afghan returnees are being forcibly deported from Iran.
On Wednesday (September 25), Agence France-Presse, citing Abdul Ghani Qazi Zada, a Taliban official at the Islam Qala border, reported that, on average, more than three thousand returnees from Iran enter Afghanistan daily.
This Taliban official at the Islam Qala border added: “The refugees have faced numerous physical and psychological tortures.”
According to him, the number of deportees from Iran has increased over the past six months.
The Taliban official stated: “The migrants are warned that they must leave within a week, or each individual over 18 must pay 100 million tomans to the bank.”
According to this report, each returnee receives 2,000 Afghanis in cash after being assessed by aid organizations.
One returnee said: “The Iranian government fined the owner of the house we lived in, and they (the Iranian police) threw our belongings out of the windows.”
This returnee noted that his family, along with about three thousand other Afghans, had been held in a camp without food or water for six days.
The forced deportation of Afghan migrants has intensified, as in the past month, several Iranian officials have announced that all undocumented migrants must leave Iran by the end of this year.
