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Reuters Africa Reuters RSS Get breaking Africa news by country with Reuters RSS service. Subscribe now [External image reference] [External image reference] [External image reference] Thu 8 Jan 2009 | 11:14 GMT You are here: Home > News > Top News > Article Home News News by Country Top News Sport World Oddly Enough Blogs Investing [External image reference] [External image reference] AlertNet Humanitarian News Do More With Reuters RSS Professional Products Financial Media Support About Thomson Reuters Egypt deports Eritreans despite torture risk Thu Jan 8, 2009 6:30am GMT Print | Single Page [-] Text [+] Photo 1 of 1Full Size CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt deported a group of 32 Eritreans on Wednesday, most of whom had tried to flee across the Egyptian desert to Israel, security sources said. The Eritreans had been arrested over the past two months and were flown back to their country's capital Asmara, the sources said. Actvists have said that Eritrean immigrants face the risk of torture if they returned home. Many of them arriving in Egypt are Pentecostal Christians escaping religious persecution and others are trying to avoid military conscription, they said. Many African migrants, some of whom are killed by Egyptian police as they scale the border fence with Israel, seek work in the Jewish state. Last month Human Rights Watch said Eritrean migrants could face torture if forced to return home because the Asmara government regarded people who flee as having "betrayed" Eritrea. The rights group said at the time Egypt was holding some 98 Eritrean migrants in a detention centre in Sinai and that the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees had not been granted access to them. Egypt for years tolerated tens of thousands of Africans on its territory, but its attitude hardened in 2007 after it came under pressure to stop growing numbers of Africans trying to cross into Israel. Egypt started a crackdown in June with deportations of hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers, the largest in decades. Egyptian police shot dead at least 28 African migrants at the border with Israel in 2008. © Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved [External image reference] REUTERS BLOGS - Africa Which way will Somalia go? Which way will Somalia go? The withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia has left a nation beset by conflict for nearly two decades at a crossroads. Ethiopia invaded to oust Islamists from the capital, but... Full Post | Comments [4] Ghana steps back from the brink | Comments [7] Cheers for Africa's new military ruler. For now. Latest AlertNet Crises News Lebanon govt criticises rocket attack into Israel ANALYSIS-Gaza crisis defers dispute over Abbas presidency Lebanon minister says Hezbollah not behind attack Angola widens border closure with DRC over Ebola VIDEO: Short pause in Gaza fighting Powered by Reuters AlertNet. AlertNet provides news, images and insight from the world's disasters and conflicts and is brought to you by Reuters Foundation. af.reuters.com: Help and Contact Us | Advertise With Us | RSS RSS Feed Thomson Reuters Corporate: Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy | Careers International Editions : Africa | Arabic | Argentina | Brazil | Canada | China | France | Germany | India | Italy | Japan | Latin America | Mexico | Russia | Spain | United Kingdom | United States Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. [External image reference]

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