HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Iranian authorities forcibly expelled more than 22,000 Afghan refugees through Islam Qala port during the past four months.
“Iran is sending more than 500 Afghan refugees to western Herat province on a daily basis via Islam Qala land border,” said provincial Refugee and Repatriation director Javed Naadim.
He told Pajhwok Afghan News the deportees included children, homeless women, elderly people and drug addicts. “These people were expelled and returned forcibly,” he said.
Iran started forcibly deporting Afghan refugees into Herat . . .
