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Forcible return of prisoner of conscience

By Liz Fekete

1 March 1997

Among concerns raised by Amnesty International in an open letter to the Romanian government is the refoulement, or threatened refoulement, of asylum-seekers.

In March 1996, Hussain Kamil, an asylum-seeker who had been imprisoned for his political activity in Syria from 1987 to 1994, and who was an AI prisoner of conscience, was forcibly returned from Otopeni airport where he had been detained to Syria where he was immediately arrested and repeatedly tortured.

AI Index 39/23/96

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