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Rights groups sue German ministers over deportation of Afghans from Pakistan
- Rights group Pro Asyl sued German ministers Johann Wadephul and Alexander Dobrindt over deportations of Afghan refugees with German protected status from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
- The suit follows Pakistan’s July 31, 2025 Statutory Regulation Order ordering the repatriation of PoR card holders whose cards expired in June, amid ongoing deportations intensifying in 2025.
- Germany launched an Afghan admission programme in October 2022 which is now suspended under a new centre-right government reviewing whether stranded Afghans in Pakistan can reach Germany.
- Beginning in May 2021, Germany has taken in approximately 36,500 Afghans considered at high risk, while Pakistan has returned over 1.16 million Afghans since 2023, prompting serious concern about the humanitarian impact of sending people back to an unstable and impoverished Afghanistan.
- The deportations risk worsening Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis and endangering deportees, especially women at heightened risk of forced marriages and violence, highlighting urgent calls for rights-based refugee policies.
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Rights groups sue German ministers over deportation of Afghans from Pakistan
Advocacy groups filed a criminal case against Germany's foreign and interior ministers on Friday, accusing them of failing to protect Afghan nationals in Pakistan with German admission approvals from deportation to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Afghans with German admissions are arrested and deported in Pakistan. They could have been safe for a long time. To worry about them publicly is hypocritical, says Anton Benz.
Pakistan recently deported Afghans with German reception guarantees, among others Pro Asyl is suing two ministers for failing to provide assistance.
At the western borders of Afghanistan, the road home has nothing cozy. It is a corridor of heat, dust and loss, where the deported Afghans return not with suitcases but with nothing, often bearing only the weight of what has been taken away from them. In these places, the lives are broken in a few minutes, the goods are seized, the savings disappear, the dignity is torn away before the final push beyond the border. From the beginning 2025, more …
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