In 2008, on a parched July day in central Afghanistan, 26-year-old Sayed Ali Jan was at work, hauling fuel along a highway in Wardak province for a logistics company supplying foreign troops.His young wife, Sayeeda, was at home with his parents in Kabul.They were expecting their first baby before the end of the year. Then, suddenly, the plans that any young couple makes were over before they had
GENEVA – The U.N refugee agency said Friday it is investigating claims by Iraqi asylum seekers that they were mistreated by British officials before being deported back to Iraq.Fourteen failed asylum seekers told lawyers of the U.N High Commissioner for Refugees in Baghdad that they were beaten by staff from the U.K.Border Agency in a London airport before being forced onto the plane to Ira