“Returns are increasing, even as dangers in the country have become more severe,” the report said. In the first six months of 2017, violence killed close to 1,700 people and left 3,600 others injured. The Amnesty report said European countries had pressured the Afghan government, which is heavily dependent on donor money, to take back its citizens. The European Union and Afghanistan signed a document, “The Joint Way Forward,” last year, with the Afghan government agreeing to admit its citizens who did not receive asylum in Europe. The Amnesty report recounts the story of the Farhadi family, which was forcibly returned to Kabul from Norway late last year.

Source: New York Times October 05, 2017 09:45 UTC