UK/Somalia: Concern at government forcing asylum-seekers back to Somali war zone

Amnesty International has expressed extreme concern at news reports that the UK government has begun forcibly returning failed Somali asylum-seekers to the Somali capital Mogadishu, despite widespread violence in the city that continues to claim hundreds of civilian lives. In a little-publicised policy change, the government has been forcibly returning male Somalis to Mogadishu since 31 March 2004, with six people known to have been sent there by early June.