In 2005 the UN's special rapporteur on torture criticised Britain for relying on "diplomatic assurances" that deportees would not be tortured.
Governments everywhere hate bundling handcuffed immigrants on to aircraft; and, alarmingly often, deportees get killed.
Only after the communist state government in Bengal angrily pointed out that some deportees were legally entitled to live in India did the BJP-Shiv Sena government back down.The coalition won power in 1995, dislodging the Congress Party, which had long ruled Maharashtra.
It is unclear how many, if any, of the latest deportees are related to these ragtag rebels.
We spoke to him at his Paris flat, among the memorabilia of a life of computer scienceDown and out Freshly expelled from Saudi Arabia, the deportees returning to Yemen pose a big problem for the poorest country in the Arab world.
Many of them had been critical of the social evils of tsarism, and some had been imprisoned while Lenin was still ensconced in Zurich's public library.The deportees included religious philosophers (Nikolai Berdyaev and Semyon Frank), liberal economists (Boris Brutskus), writers and critics (Mikhail Osorgin and Yuly Aikhenvald), abstract artists, historians, mathematicians and literary journalists.
Rights of appeal are more restricted and deportees may not be able to appeal until after they have left the country, by which time it might be too late.
That is because the deportees are not people but red-eared terrapins.The BCG is a charity dedicated to the "care and conservation of tortoises, terrapins and turtles".
In Michoacán, a south-western state where drug-related violence has been a focus of attention this year, some deportees have taken up arms and joined vigilante groups fighting drug gangs.The Mexican government, meanwhile, is concerned about the rights of the deportees.
One in which German deportees had been held was indicating NRD, which in Polish means German Democratic Republic, which was founded in 1949.
Both deportees and critics of the Saudi policy admit the kingdom has a right to enforce its laws and that most of the Yemenis being expelled were not there legally.
