UNHCR Concerned about Refoulement of Somalis from Kenya

From Reuters:

UNHCR wishes to express its concern about the increasing trend by the Kenyan authorities to forcibly return Somali asylum seekers to their country. On Wednesday, 31 March, 31 asylum seekers, including nine men, eight women and 14 children, traveling by bus to Dadaab refugee camps were forcibly returned to Somalia. UNHCR received information from a government official that the military intercepted the bus and took the asylum seekers to Dadaab police station then later escorted the bus back to Dobley, a centre near the Somali border.When we requested intervention, we were informed that the police and military continue to return asylum seekers to Somalia acting on instructions from the authorities in the Provincial Headquarters in Garissa.