Aegis spotlights UK Darfur deportation disgrace

21 January 2007. The Aegis Trust yesterday put the spotlight firmly back on the Home Office's disgraceful treatment of Darfuri survivors claiming asylum in the UK. Alnour Abdelrahman Yousif Fasher, grandson of the Sultan of the Zaghawa tribe (one of three major African tribes in Darfur), and formerly a fighter with the African rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement, was due to be deported to Khartoum today. The Home Office, which fast-tracked his case, had astonishingly refused to accept that he was politically active. If Alnour had been removed to Khartoum, he would have faced a high risk of imprisonment and torture, possibly death.

By Aegis Trust,UK.

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