654 Migrants From Sudan to Be Deported

More than half the Sudanese migrants who were violently removed from a Cairo protest camp will be deported, Egyptian authorities said.

Human rights organizations have condemned last week’s riot police operation, in which at least 27 people died.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Fatma Zahraa Etman said 654 Sudanese would be sent home because they were “illegal immigrants or refugees who had violated security conditions.”

The migrants do not want to return to Sudan. But United Nations refugee officials have ruled that many do not qualify for resettlement because the war in southern Sudan has ended.