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Egypt repatriates 25 Eritreans, ignoring appeals..

CAIRO, Dec 24/ 2008

(Reuters)

Egypt repatriated on Wednesday 25 Eritreans caught in Egypt while on their way to Israel as migrants, ignoring appeals from human rights groups that the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR first assess their asylum claims.

Airport sources said police had put the Eritreans on an EgyptAir plane for Asmara and had handed them over to EgyptAir security.

The Eritreans were caught on the Egyptian-Israeli border a few days ago while trying to slip across into Israel.

Hundreds of African migrants have attempted the journey in recent years. This year alone Egyptian police have shot and killed 28 of them and Egypt has deported up to 1,200.

The New York-based group Human Rights Watch said on Saturday that Egypt must not deport Eritrean asylum seekers without giving the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) an opportunity to assess their claims.

It said that Egypt was holding around 98 Eritrean migrants in a detention centre in Sinai, and UNHCR had no access to them.

The London-based rights group Amnesty International said that in Eritrea the asylum seekers would probably be held incommunicado in inhumane conditions for long periods of time.

“Any member of the current group, if forcibly returned, could also face torture or other ill-treatment, particularly as many of them are believed to have left Eritrea to avoid forced conscription,” it added.

The UNHCR office in Cairo said it was investigating the report that Egypt had repatriated the Eritreans. “It seems that this is a group we did not know about,” said one official. (Writing by Jonathan Wright)

Eritreans want recognition as refugees

Eritrean Refugees, wearing...

Eritrean Refugees, wearing white masks, shout slogans as they protest in front of Israel’s Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday.Photo: AP

erusalem Post, Israel

21/12/08

Wearing white masks to conceal their identities, more than 500 Eritrean asylum seekers took to the streets of Tel Aviv Tuesday to protest what they describe as the Israeli government’s refusal to recognize them as refugees and grant them certain rights under the United Nation’s convention on the status of refugees, to which Israel is party.

“We wore the masks because if we are identified by the Eritrean authorities then our families still living there could be persecuted,” one of the protesters, Asmaram, told The Jerusalem Post following the demonstration.

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Egypt must allow UN access to Eritrean migrants, says HRW

21/12/08

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt must not deport dozens of Eritrean asylum seekers without allowing the U.N. refugee agency opportunity to assess their claims, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday.

The rights group said Egypt was holding around 98 Eritrean migrants in a detention centre in Sinai, and the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has not been granted access to them.

However, Egypt has allowed officials from Eritrea’s embassy in Cairo to visit the migrants to prepare paperwork in preparation for their deportation, HRW said.

The migrants could face torture if forced to return to Eritrea, as Asmara regards people who flee the country as having “betrayed” Eritrea, the statement added.

“It is outrageous for the Egyptian authorities to give Eritrean embassy officials access to their nationals who may fear persecution at the hands this government while barring the U.N. agency that should review their asylum claims,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at HRW.

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