The UNHCR has expressed its concern over the temporary detention and alleged mistreatment of Uzbek refugees and asylum-seekers that took place last week in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty. The five men . three refugees and two asylum-seekers . reported to the UNHCR that at a group of at least six armed and masked men entered their homes in the city at midnight on Sept. 14 and took them away for questioning. Upon being taken to the Almaty Department of the Committee of National Security (DKNB), the men say they were verbally abused and threatened with immediate deportation to Uzbekistan, agency spokesperson Melissa Fleming said. (UN News Service)
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