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Sri Lanka court gives green light to deport Pakistani asylum seekers
[DAWN] A Sri Lankan court on Monday gave permission to authorities to send back scores of Pak asylum seekers, after the government said they were a threat to the island's security and public health.Deputy Solicitor General Janak de Silva asked the Appeal court to lift an earlier suspension of deportations, saying there was evidence Paks were committing crimes and bringing malaria into the country, which was otherwise virtually free of the disease. "Interim relief was vacated and the court has dismissed the application. Now all the asylum seekers are exposed to deportation if government wants," said Lakshan Dias, lawyer of a 38-year-old Pak woman who complained after her husband, brother and father were detained pending deportation. The court on Aug. 15 ordered authorities to temporarily stop deporting the Paks, after the woman said her family was being forcibly sent home without having their claims properly assessed. The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... refugee agency says 88 Paks have been deported since Aug. 1 in what is has called a breach of international law. Posted by: Fred 2014-09-02 |
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