KABUL (Pajhwok): The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday about 6,000 Afghans were currently being held in the country’s prisons.
ISNA news agency quoted Alireza Mahmoodi, Consular Director General of Iran's Foreign Ministry, as writing on X that currently about 6,000 Afghan nationals were languishing in Iran’s jails, but he said nothing about their crimes.
However, according to reports, most Afghans who enter Iran illegally are imprisoned by the Iranian government and some have been accused of drug trafficking and other crimes.
The Afghan Prisons Affairs Regulatory Authority said that last year, 1 . . .
