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UN Criticizes Dubai for Afghans Deportation VOA News 26 Feb 2002 18:31 UTC 
The United Nations Refugee Agency is criticizing the emirate of Dubai for deporting 750 Afghans back to their homeland. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Kris Janowski says this is not the time for any state to deport Afghans.
Mr. Janowski says the U.N. agency is concerned about the circumstances of the mass deportation, which took place on Saturday.
He says the agency was not allowed to interview the 750 Afghan men before they were flown back, so it did not know whether some of them had human rights or refugee protection concerns.
The Geneva-based agency says Iran and Pakistan have deported 1,000 Afghans so far this year, of the more than 3.5 million they are sheltering.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters.
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