{"id":117662,"date":"2026-08-19T23:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117662\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:13:21","slug":"swiss-court-clears-afghan-repatriations-if-conditions-allow-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117662\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss court clears Afghan repatriations if conditions allow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787181201_350_a661cb674e15953bf4d34553582cbac52012ceeb-91919102.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Switzerland is resuming deportations to Afghanistan in certain cases\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland is resuming deportations to Afghanistan in certain cases            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Refugees from Afghanistan can again be returned to their country after the Swiss Federal Administrative Court ruled repatriations possible under \u201cfavourable individual circumstances\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 19, 2026 &#8211; 10:32\n<\/p>\n<p>The court made the ruling as it dismissed an appeal against repatriation from a young Afghan man. The judges in St Gallen carried out a reassessment of the situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark ruling said that while repatriations should remain restricted, some are now possible under certain favourable individual circumstances. This applies to the whole of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent case, the refugee in question is young, in good health and belongs to the Pashtun majority ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>He also has professional experience and can rely on a family network in Kabul. The Swiss migration office had rejected his asylum application at the end of 2025 and ordered his removal.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787181201_542_5a513d1ee86cc7f833e6811bc8cd51be3b8669b5-89481735.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"New deportation practice for Afghans not yet implemented\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Foreign Affairs\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss repatriation policy for Afghans has not been implemented    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jun 8, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                No rejected Afghan asylum seekers have yet been repatriated under the new practice adopted in April.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/new-deportation-practice-for-afghans-not-yet-implemented\/89481764\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss repatriation policy for Afghans has not been implemented<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from French, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland is resuming deportations to Afghanistan in certain cases Keystone-SDA Refugees from Afghanistan can again be returned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,312,100,1292,103,41,17],"class_list":["post-117662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-various","tag-latest-news","tag-law-and-order","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117124714306347386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}