Somali Refugees in Nepal

What happens when smugglers escort refugees to 'safety'? The BBC reports:

Somali refugees living in Nepal have been demonstrating in the capital Kathmandu to gain official recognition by the government. There are about 70 Somalis in Nepal, many of them children. None of these people intended to come to Nepal. They paid money to self-styled agents in Mogadishu who deceived them about where they were going. About 15 say they were told they were flying to the Italian city of Naples by men deliberately using the name's similarity to the name Nepal.

UNHCR in Nepal has recognised most of them as refugees, but the Nepal government has not, as it has not signed the UN refugee convention. Instead it treats them as illegal immigrants, liable to pay huge fines for overstaying their visas if and when they move to other countries.

There are other refugee or asylum-seeking communities in Nepal from countries including Iraq, Pakistan and Iran. Many of them have been trafficked in a similar way and some are imprisoned here.