Human Rights Watch said many of the Afghan evacuees are suffering from depression and other psychological ailments, have no access to legal counsel and have inadequate educational services for their children
Human Rights Watch accused Emirati authorities on Wednesday of arbitrarily detaining for more than 15 months as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees who have not qualified for resettlement elsewhere.
A UAE official told Reuters the UAE continues to work with the United States and other international partners to resettle remaining evacuees in a timely manner as per the original agreement. The official did not comment on the accusation that the Afghans were being detained. Human Rights Watch said it had received no responses to requests for comment from the UAE ministries of interior and foreign affairs.
The evacuees were housed in Emirates Humanitarian City and Tasameem Workers City – apartment complexes converted into refugee housing – and many eventually were cleared for resettlement in the United States, Canada and other countries. “Emirati authorities have kept thousands of Afghan asylum seekers locked up for over 15 months in cramped, miserable conditions with no hope of progress on their cases,” said Joey Shea, Human Rights Watch’s UAE researcher.
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