In new admin error, Germany expels Uighur man to China

BERLIN: German authorities wrongfully deported an Uighur man to China due to an administrative error, local media reported yesterday, in a fresh scandal as the country seeks to step up expulsions of failed asylum seekers.

Officials were due to hold a hearing with the 22-year- old Uighur, who was not named, on April 3 over his asylum application, said regional public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk ( BR).

But a fax announcing the hearing from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees ( BAMF) apparently failed to reach local authorities in Bavaria, who, in the early hours of April 3, put the Uighur man on a plane to Beijing.

“We were unable to find the fax despite an intensive search,” Munich authorities told BR.

“We regret greatly that the deportation took place even though a valid asylum application had been made. — AFP