GCRPPB calls for urgent action re the plight of Bhutanese Refugees expelled by the US authorities

GCRPPB calls for urgent action re the plight of Bhutanese Refugees expelled by the US authorities

The Hague – The Global Campaign for the Release of Political Prisoners in Bhutan (GCRPPB) – a Bhutanese rights group- has expressed deep concern over the forced deportation of ten Bhutanese refugees from the United States, leading to renewed statelessness and a humanitarian crisis. “These individuals, originally evicted from Bhutan in the 1990s, had been legally resettled in the U.S. under the UNHCR resettlement program. Despite this, they were …