UN: Egypt to Chair Refugee Agency’s Governing Body – Highlights Urgency for Cairo to End Abuses Against Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Source: Human Rights Watch (HRW)

(Geneva, October 8, 2010) – Egypt, the new chair of the UN refugee agency’s governing body, should immediately end its policy of shooting foreign nationals trying to cross from Egypt into Israel, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Egyptian authorities.