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‘Stop returns and let every Afghan enter’
Protesters call on PM to open the doors to refugees as Kabul death count grows
People evacuated from Kabul arrive at Hindon Air force base near New Delhi, India. Sunday, August 22, 2021
PRESSURE mounted on the Prime Minister to open the doors to refugees from the Afghanistan rout today as deaths mounted at Kabul airport.
Stand Up to Racism and the Afghan Human Rights Foundation will rally on Monday outside the Home Office under the demand: “Let Afghan refugees in — Stop deportations now.”
Branding the government’s pledge to let in 5,000 Afghan refugees this year and 20,000 in “coming years” woefully inadequate, the two organisations said the “humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has thrown millions of people’s lives under urgent threat.
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