Afghanistan + 1 more
Afghans in Iran to be repatriated by 2004
Ahmad Husseini, the Iranian Interior Ministry
official responsible for refugees, said on 27 January that 500,000 out
of the 2.4 million Afghan refugees in Iran have left and the rest of them
will return to Afghanistan in the next two years, Iranian state radio's
Zahedan-based Pashtu service reported. After what Husseini referred to
as the "voluntary repatriation" of the Afghans living in Iran,
the only Afghans remaining in Iran would be the ones to whom the Interior
Ministry grants temporary residency permits. Husseini added that Afghans
in Iran who are working without work permits will be detained and deported.
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