Posts Tagged ‘Tamil asylum seekers’UK ‘to deport 100 Tamils’ as Sri Lanka fights UN resolutionTuesday, February 28th, 2012 [Channel 4 News] A plane chartered by the British government is to deport about 100 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, according to a human rights charity. Human Rights Watch claims the aircraft will fly the Tamils back to the country where they could face interrogation and torture. UK: Halt Deportations of Tamils to Sri LankaSaturday, February 25th, 2012 [Human Rights Watch] The United Kingdom should suspend deportations of ethnic Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka and immediately review its policies and information about the country’s rights situation used to assess their claims, Human Rights Watch said today. Research by Human Rights Watch has found that some returned Tamil asylum seekers from the United Kingdom have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture upon their return to Sri Lanka. Protests target detention centreMonday, December 12th, 2011 [AAP] Protesters have targeted the immigration detention centre at Perth Airport in a bid to stop the deportation of two Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka ’still torturing’ TamilsMonday, November 7th, 2011 [Channel 4 News] The UN has already found that evidence of the killing of up to 40,000 civilians amid allegations of serious human rights abuses amounted to “credible allegations” that war crimes had been committed during the last days of the civil war in 2009. UK Sri Lanka Tamils fear forced deportationWednesday, June 15th, 2011 [BBC] About 20 Tamil asylum seekers facing the prospect of being deported from Britain to Sri Lanka have told the BBC that their lives are in danger. |
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