Egypt: Inside Egypt’s Secret Scheme to Detain and Deport Thousands of Sudanese Refugees

Aswan, Egypt — ‘I pleaded with the soldiers, but they refused to help us.’

Thousands of Sudanese refugees who escaped to neighbouring Egypt have been detained by Egyptian authorities in a network of secret military bases, and then deported back to their war-torn country often without the chance to claim asylum, an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt has found.

The pushbacks uncovered by reporters contravene refugee conventions that Egypt has ratified, and are…