Tajikistan gives Afghan refugees 15 days to leave.
Local sources say the Tajik government has given Afghan refugees 15 days to leave the country. In recent weeks, detention and forced deportation of Afghan refugees in the country have increased.
According to sources, many of the refugees who have been deported had legal residency documents. Currently, more than 13,000 Afghan citizens live in Tajikistan. Most of them are waiting for the finalization of their immigration cases by the Canadian government.
A large part of these refugees are former Afghan government employees who took refuge in Tajikistan for their lives after the Taliban took control.
According to reports, the Tajik government has detained dozens of refugees, most of them without prior notice and from their places of work, and returned them to Afghanistan in the past week alone. Most of them live in the town of Wahdat and the Rudaki district on the outskirts of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
At the same time as Tajikistan’s decision, Iran and Pakistan have also intensified the process of expelling Afghan refugees and are returning hundreds of people to Afghanistan daily.
