Rights group calls on Egypt to grant access to asylum seekers

: Person Rights Watch called on the Egyptian authorities Saturday to allow the United Nations entree to 48 Africans who were returned from State Of Israel after attempting to illegally come in the Judaic state.

The rights grouping said Arab Republic Of Egypt had held 43 Sudanese, three people from the Ivory Seashore and one Somalian in hold since State Of Israel transferred them on August 18 without providing any information about them.

"We are extremely worried by Egypt's failure to account for these people," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Center East and North Africa manager at Person Rights Watch. "The full incident uncovers Arab Republic Of Arab Republic Of Arab Republic Of Egypt and Israel's shared neglect for the predicament of Sudanese fleeing Darfur."

Citing mass media studies that Egypt forcibly returned five of the 48 political detainees to Republic Of The Sudan on October 28, Person Rights Watch said Egypt had a duty to find the refugee position of refuge searchers before returning them to their place country.

According to the rights group, the U.N. refugee federal agency have got been able to ascertain that 23 of the political detainees are refugees or have registered claims for asylum. But Arab Republic Of Egypt have rebuffed repeated U.N. petitions for entree to the political detainees to find the position of the rest. Today in Africa & Center East

"Egypt cannot avoid its duty to measure the refugee position of people fleeing a struggle by preventing the U.N. refugee federal agency from seeing them," said Whitson. "Egypt is thumbing its olfactory organ at a cardinal rule of refugee law."

Israel estimations that 2,800 people, mostly from Africa, have got entered the state illegally through its boundary line with Arab Republic Of Arab Republic Of Egypt in recent old age searching for jobs. The figure shot up over the summer, apparently as word spreading of occupation chances in Israel. As many as 50 people arrived each twenty-four hours in June, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.