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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ruth Michaelson

EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’

Three small children sit on the floor, while a man hands them food from a small plate.
About 500,000 Sudanese people – such as this family in Cairo – are registered as refugees in Egypt. Amnesty said 14 refugees were arrested in hospitals. Photograph: Hadeer Mahmoud/Reuters

The Egyptian authorities have used EU-funded security forces in a campaign of mass arrests and forcible deportations against refugees from the Sudan war, according to a human rights group report.

Amnesty International found Egypt “forcibly returned an estimated 800 Sudanese detainees between January and March 2024, who were all denied the possibility to claim asylum”.

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