Following the United States, Great Britain also “deplored” last week’s deportation of 18 Tibetan refugees home, the British Embassy said Tuesday.
“The UK deeply regrets the absence of any recognised process or credible justification for the unacceptable action taken against the group. “The UK is particularly dismayed over the manner that repeated appeals by various diplomatic missions in Kathmandu to release the refugees from prison and to process them in accordance with established practice and in co-operation with UNHCR were ignored by HMGN,” the Embassy said.
The Embassy said Nepali action was “unilateral”, contravened international law and amounted to “refoulement” and in “a worrying precedent for the future.”
