Iran is forcefully deporting Afghans by the thousands in violation of its international obligation to protect refugees, a rights group said Wednesday in a report. The Human Rights Watch report included stories of fathers deported without being given a chance to tell the families they leave behind. It said a 12-year old boy was left without money, alone at the border.
Millions of Afghans fled to Iran and Pakistan in the 1980s to flee a bloody anti-Communist insurgency. Currently, Human Rights Watch estimates about 2 million Afghans live in Iran as unregistered refugees. Faraz Sanei. (AP)
