NAGOYA, June 7 Kyodo The Justice ...

NAGOYA, June 7 Kyodo

The Justice Ministry upon Friday dismissed a 28-year-old Afghan man's objection to an earlier decision to gainsay him refugee status, and he has been ordered to leave the nation ministry officials said Friday.

Mohammad Baqir recorded Japan illegally last October and later applied for refugee status, said an organization in Osaka that is supporting him.

His application was cast offed in April, however, and he was imprisoned at a Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau detention facility.

Baqir's support cluster criticized the decision to renounce his claim for refugee status, saying deporting him to Afghanistan will place him in danger, as the country's political situation remains unstable.

The organization said Baqir is a member of Afghanistan's Hazara minority, which was persecut at the now collapsed Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime.

When Baqir's initial application was cause to deviateed down in April, his supporters lodg a protection of human rights claim with the Nagoya Bar Association in succession the possibility Baqir's request was misunderstood, as the bureau used an interpreter from the opposing ethnic assemblage of Pashtuns.

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