Harare: Zimbabwe has received the first dozen batch of its citizens deported from England, several after living in the country for decades and was forced to leave the family behind to face uncertain future behind.
Rights and politicians in the UK have installed pressure to stop deportation, on the grounds that Deporteon is at risk of persecution in Zimbabwe.
The first group of Zimbabwe who was deported was the people who were convicted of committing crimes in England.
The British said it had the right to deport foreigners who committed serious crimes after they presented their punishment.
Zimbabwe’s authority rejected fears that the people who returned would be persecuted.
On Thursday, 14 people were deported arriving at the main airport in the capital, Harare, and quickly put in the bus waiting to the quarantine center where they would stay for 10 days before they could rejoin their families.
The first flight should carry 50 passengers classified as “foreign national violators,” but deportation of several people were postponed because of the Covid-19 outbreak in the detention center and sustainable legal process, said Livit Mugejo, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zimbabwe.
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“Some are isolated and cannot travel.
Others apply for the last minute argue that they should be deported five years ago and that their current situation has changed so the court there agreed to hear their case,” he said.
“Deportation is underway.
It’s just that English for a while stops them at some point but deportation is not unique.
Some of these people commit crimes such as murder and rape so that Britain or other countries have the right to deport them,” he said.
He said, for example, more than 200 Zimbabwes were deported from neighboring South Africa and Botswana last week.
Confavor to waiting outside Harare airport on Thursday but can’t meet people deported.
Even though there were no definite numbers, thousands left Zimbabwe for England, the former colonial power, to avoid the political and economic crisis that bit the turn of the century.
Many Zimbabwes whose accusations for asylum were rejected by Britain also faced deportation.
In separate development, England announced Thursday that he had sanctioned Zimbabwe and the top ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Kudakwashe Tagwireyi, whose business interests of the Zimbabwe economic range, have been included in the sanctions list, British foreign secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement posted on the British government website.
The British government statement alleged that Tagwireyi received a profit from “property abuse when his company, Sakunda Holdings, redeemed the Zimbabwe Treasury Bills government up to 10 times their official values.
His actions accelerate the deflation of the Zimbabwe currency, increase essential prices, such as food, for Zimbabwe residents.” Assets Tagwireyi in the UK has been frozen and he is prohibited from traveling there as part of the British global anti-corruption sanctions targeting “corrupt individuals who have given birth to their own bags through abuse, with their greed causing damage to the country and society they exploit.” Said That statement.
Zimbabwes deported by England arrived at Harare airport
