They refused to enter the truck used for the refoulement, and the soldiers hit them".
The refoulement -the fact of being arrested and deported to Oujda or across the border- was cited by many as increasing risk of victimization.
"It happened here in Morocco during the refoulement, a young girl and a young boy got their legs broken by the Moroccan military.
The human rights group said about 80 Syrian refugees who were previously held at a detention centre in the Turkish city of Erzurum had been expelled in violation of the non-refoulement principle of international law, which bans countries from returning refugees to conflict zones where their lives are in danger.
This crisis is an opportunity for Europe to uphold its commitments to the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the 1951 Convention on Refugees and its Protocol; to respect basic human dignity and the principle of 'non refoulement'; to uphold the foundation values of the European Union and the core principles of its Human Rights legislation.
It demanded Hong Kong return me outside of the framework of its laws, in direct violation of the principle of non-refoulement – the Law of Nations.
In October, the Syria Needs Analysis Project, a group that tracks the humanitarian plight of Syrians, found "the number of refoulements of Syrian refugees has increased in September, particularly of those with invalid documentation or who have gone to Syrian and returned back to Jordan".
The bilateralism present in both the Australian and Italian cases shows an anti Geneva Convention deployment of the concept of non-refoulement since the underlying logic of the agreements was to redirect asylum seekers to third zones of questionable safety.
Article 33 of the convention prohibits "refoulement" of refugees – ie removal to places or countries where their lives or freedom would be at risk on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
It also insisted that turning back boats at sea was "a flagrant breach of the ban on refoulement [or forced repatriation]".
