Indonesia. Ghulam Sakhi Ghairat, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Indonesia met more than 160 Afghan asylum seekers in a Tanjungpinang detention center and asked them to end their hunger strike. He said that they agreed and will end their action.
The Afghan detainees have been staging a hunger strike for two weeks in protest of their on-going detention. The asylum seekers are demanding they be sent to Australia. The Afghan immigrants have been detained for some two years.
Indonesia has been a traditional transit point for asylum seekers from western Asia and Africa trying to reach Australia. At the end of December last year, Indonesia’s immigration office reported that the country hosted over 3,600 foreign asylum seekers pending the processing of their statuses by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. TOT News
Afghan Asylum Seekers Will End Their Hunger Strike
- Sunday, 06 May 2012 13:20
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