The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed its concern over the fate of 100 Arab people from different nationalities, who have been transferred by the Algerian authorities to a desert area near the border with Niger.
The UNHCR asserted in its statement that "It is concerned about the safety of these poor people from Syria, Yemen and Palestine, who are stacked in the border with Niger,".
The statement pointed out that these migrants, who are about 120 Syrians, Palestinians and Yemenis were "held in the center of" Tamanrasset "in southern Algeria, before being taken to a place near the border crossing," Ain Qizam" on December 26th, noting that 100 of them had been moved towards the border "an abandoned place", while the remaining 20 "are currently stuck in the desert," near the crossing, "Ain Qizam."
The UNHCR said that some of the migrants were "registered refugees” fled war and persecution ", as they said that they had tried to obtain international protection in Algeria", asking the Algerian authorities to allow them access to reach these people and "to meet the humanitarian needs and to identify people in need of international protection to ensure their safety ".
Moreover, the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights condemned on Monday the deportation of about 50 migrants, mostly Syrians, including children and families, who had entered Algeria illegally in late September.
Following the denunciation of the league, an Interior Ministry official said that "about 100 people, mostly Syrians," were deported on suspicion of terrorism”. He explained in media statements that those migrants who illegally entered Algeria were arrested in September and transferred to the judiciary which ordered their deportation.
Algeria has no asylum law. However, recently, many migrants came from sub-Saharan Africa, as about 100 000 of them are still in the Algerian soil, according to non-governmental organizations.
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