{"id":2032,"date":"2026-10-13T23:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:54:41","slug":"human-rights-watch-urges-france-to-halt-deportations-of-afghans-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/human-rights-watch-urges-france-to-halt-deportations-of-afghans-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch Urges France to Halt Deportations of Afghans to Taliban Controlled Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Human Rights Watch has urged France to suspend plans to deport Afghan nationals to Afghanistan, warning that forced returns could expose them to persecution, torture and other serious human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Human Rights Watch, France\u2019s decision to open technical discussions with the Taliban authorities on forced returns marks a dangerous shift in policy and could violate the country\u2019s international human rights obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organisation said there is compelling evidence that Afghans forcibly returned to Afghanistan have been detained and tortured by Taliban forces. It also warned that French authorities have not provided clear guarantees to protect people at particular risk, including women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Human Rights Watch called on France to suspend any deportation plans and ensure that migration cooperation does not result in people being returned to a country where they face persecution or serious harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The warning comes as several European countries consider or pursue the return of Afghan nationals to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, raising renewed concerns about refugee protection and the risk of human rights violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch has urged France to suspend plans to deport Afghan nationals to Afghanistan, warning that forced returns could expose them to persecution, torture and other serious human rights violations. According to Human Rights Watch, France\u2019s decision to open technical discussions with the Taliban authorities on forced returns marks a dangerous shift in policy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,35,442,29],"tags":[815,141,82,760],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-human-rights","category-immigration","category-world","tag-forced-deportation","tag-france","tag-human-rights","tag-human-rights-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}