Witness: Iran, Where Your Shoes Can Get You Deported
Photo © 2013 Mikhail Galustov for Human Rights Watch
In the end, the family was deported to Afghanistan over pink sneakers and platform sandals.
Zohrah, 17, and her sister Hasina, 15, sounded furious, in a teenager kind of way, when they talked about their arrest and how it led them, their father, and Zohrah’s boyfriend to a dusty reception center on the Afghan side of the Iran-Afghanistan border.
They were waiting for a bus to drive them across the arid land further into Afghanistan, a country neither girl had ever seen – Hasina was born in Iran, and their parents had settled in Iran when Zohrah was still an infant. But because their parents were Afghans, none of the family had Iranian citizenship.
Dozens of other Afghans sat with them in the hangers of the reception center. Like Zohran and Hasina’s family, a number of them had papers showing they lived in Iran legally, but this didn’t stop Iranian officials from deporting them.
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