HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Iran has been deporting up to 50 Afghan refugee children into western Herat province on a daily basis, local officials said on Thursday.
The provincial Refugees and Repatriation Department head, Javed Naadim, told Pajhwok Afghan News currently about 1,500 individuals including children entered Herat via Islam Qala border crossing from Iran on a daily basis.
He said most of the deportees were forcibly sent and a small number of them voluntarily returned to their country. He said the deported people included children, unaccompanied women . . .
