By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole Fear of Police, Under a Culture of Bribery Returning from church on my scooter with my wife on the pillion recently, I found the police and the army everywhere for the President’s visit. A policeman, an officer, stood at the middle of the Kandy Road-Kachcheri Nallur Road junction expecting us […]
The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’ says that Turkey has stepped up pushbacks and deportations to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover there in August 2021. Human Rights Watch also found that that Afghans inside Turkey are being blocked from registering for international protection and that Afghans facing imminent deportation are often given no opportunity to make refugee claims. As of October 20, 2022, the Presidency of Migration Management in Turkey’s Interior Ministry reported 238,448 “irregular migrants whose entrance to our country has been prevented” in 2022, most of them Afghans. Turkey reported deporting 44,768 Afghans by air to Kabul in the first eight months of 2022, a 150 percent increase over the first eight months of 2021.
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Anthony Lewis, 62, hunkered down in a tattered blue canvas camping chair on the sidewalk across from the Chrysler Building as a frigid wind raced down 42nd Street.
He’d just been given a pair of gloves by a kind passerby. But the parka he wore and the thin beige blanket wrapped around him couldn’t keep Friday’s early spring cold from chilling his bones.
“Seven months I’m out here,” Lewis said. “It’s crazy. It’s hard.”
He’s a diabetic who must give himself insulin shots. Between the disease and the streets, his feet are a constant source of pain. On his roller cart with all his worldly possessions, he’d attached a worn Santa Claus doll and a cardboard sign declaring,