{"id":177638,"date":"2017-09-08T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/eastern-sudan-police-arrest-eritrean-refugees\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T02:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T01:46:28","slug":"eastern-sudan-police-arrest-eritrean-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/eastern-sudan-police-arrest-eritrean-refugees","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Sudan police arrest Eritrean refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Kassala detained fifteen Eritrean refugees and prepares to bring them to trial, for illegally entering eastern Sudan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday the police arrested the group of Eritrean asylum seekers during border control activities. The group is being held in a prison in Kassala, awaiting trial, a source from Kassala told Radio Dabanga yesterday.<\/p>\n

As reported by Radio Dabanga this week, Sudanese courts deported 104 Eritrean refugees in August<\/a>, and sentenced others to imprisonment for their 'illegal infiltration into the Sudanese territory'. Among them were 30 young asylum-seekers, deported to Eritrea according to a ruling by the Kassala city court on 28 August. They were brought to the immigration police and returned to Eritrea through El Laffa crossing the next day.<\/p>\n

Funding by the European Commission to the Sudanese government earlier this year, to be implemented under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, contains a development aid package of €155 million, “improve migration management processes” and “to tackle the root causes of irregular migration in the country”. Including the amount of €40 million that is appointed to Better Migration Management, supporting this process in Khartoum.<\/p>\n

Responding to the reports about Sudan's deportation of Eritrean asylum seekers, on Wednesday the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) expressed its concern that “these asylum-seekers do not appear to have had their claims adequately heard, and they were deported on charges of illegal entry into Sudan which is not supported under international refugee law.”<\/p>\n

Sudan is one of the main transit countries<\/a> of eastern Africans who want to travel to Europe by sea, according to the UNHCR. Local human rights advocates and several members of the European Parliament questioned<\/a> the effectiveness of human rights provisions attached to the EU assistance package to Sudan after protesting Ethiopian refugees were brutally dispersed and arrested by Sudanese riot police in February 2017. <\/p>\n