In Sweden hundreds of refugee children from Afghanistan protested deportations to their homeland

Almaty. August 7. Silkroadnews – In Sweden hundreds of refugee children from Afghanistan protested deportations to their homeland, Swedish newspaper “The Local” reported.
“Hundreds of children who came to Sweden as unaccompanied refugees are holding a sit-down protest outside the Riksdag demanding that the country stops deportations to Afghanistan”, the report said.
“In an open letter to Swedish Migration Agency general director Mikael Ribbenvik the protestors ask “Is Sweden really a moral country when you say to Swedes not to travel to Afghanistan when it is dangerous, but you think it’s safe for us young people to live there? It’s not human””, publication reads.
Earlier it was reported that Swedish Migration Agency said it closely follows the security situation in Afghanistan and that there are provinces where refugees cannot return yet, but the issue of the complete suspension of deportation was not considered.
The newspaper quoted M. Ribbenvik saying, “a lot is required for a general position to be taken. The conflict would have to reach a level where it affects everybody in the country indiscriminately – that’s the level where we have a general suspension”.
According to the publication, refugee children participating in the protest demanded the deportation decision to be reconsidered and announced their intention to meet M. Ribbenvik personally.
“If Ribbenvik comes here, we will meet him with love, because we hate hatred. We fled from hatred and now we want to express our love. We are not bad, we do not pose a threat to society”, the press secretary of the protest group Fatima Kmhavari was quoted saying.
It is reported that in 2015, 23,000 refugee children who arrived from Afghanistan not accompanied with adults applied for asylum in Sweden. Last year, the Swedish Migration Agency examined 12,168 applications, of which 4,152 were rejected in the first instance.