- According to the Tolo News news agency and According to officials from the Herat Department of Refugees and Repatriations, in the past six months, more than 460 wounded and beaten people have entered Afghanistan from the Iran-Qala border crossing.
Local officials in Nimroz say that in the last six months, nearly 100 Afghan refugees have been shot dead by Iranian security forces and their bodies have been transferred to Afghanistan.
According to them, these Afghan citizens who wanted to enter Iran illegally were targeted by the Afghan military.
The lifeless body of 16-year-old Afghan Sohrab has just arrived in Herat from Iran.
According to the relatives of this teenager, he was shot by Iranian soldiers in the city of Isfahan and died. Sohrab had gone to Iran illegally to find work.
Mirwais, a relative of Sohrab, said: “Sohrab Jan wanted to go to Iran to do something strange; “He told me to go and do some work to help my father here.”
“Ten days ago, he went to Iran once, but he was crossed the border. The second time he went, he reached the Iranian border point, Isfahan,” said Mustafa, a relative of Sohrab.
Meanwhile, Gholam Jilani Sharifi, the nursing director of Nimroz Hospital, said, “According to the patient’s foot, the sick and wounded were beaten at the border when they wanted to go to Iran.”
Residents of Nimroz province want the government to investigate the matter.
“The human dignity of Afghans must be preserved and not disrespected, and they must cross the border again with respect,” said Bismillah Sirat, a resident of Nimroz.
“Afghans are not seen as human beings and they are oppressed,” said Abdul Hakim, a resident of Nimroz.
On the other hand, some sources in Herat say that in recent months, several bullet-riddled bodies have entered the province from the border of Islam Qala.
According to officials from the Herat Department of Refugees and Repatriations, in the past six months, more than 460 wounded and beaten people have entered Afghanistan from the border of Islam Qala from Iran.
“We also have people who have been beaten and their arms and legs have been broken,” said Maulvi Abdul Hai Munib, Herat’s director of immigration and repatriation affairs.
However, despite numerous contacts with the Iranian consulate in Herat and the Iranian embassy in Kabul, they refused to discuss the matter.
