A Swedish judge has refused to deport two Eritrean migrants convicted of aggravated rape because they are military deserters and will face punishment if they are sent back. The men, aged 30 and 32, were convicted in a Stockholm court this week of raping the woman for hours in an apartment in the city while threatening her with a knife. The migration board found that both men were military deserters who had left Eritrea illegally. If returned, the UN warns that deserters face arbitrary detention, extrajudicial punishment and conscription that amounts to forced labour. Prosecutors had argued that the men do not have consistent work and had only learned basic Swedish as part of their case.

Source: Daily Mail December 20, 2019 11:25 UTC