Burmese woman asylum seeker in South Korea to be deported to India
August 15, 2007 - A Burmese woman Ms. Pari (name changed for security reasons) from Chin state, Burma is likely to be deported to India by South Korea after being detained for a year.
In 2005, A Korean Christian pastor took Ms. Pari (26) and her friend from India to Korea where Pari worked as a domestic help. Later, she left her work because she could not bear the repression by the landlord.
After a year of working as a domestic help, she was arrested and detained by the immigration department of South in Korea in August 2006.
"She (Pari) appealed to the immigration department not to send her back to India. She is worried that the Indian authorities would deport her to Burma", Cheery Zahau, coordinator of the Women's League of Chinland told Khonumthung News.
Meanwhile, WLC is gearing up to launch a campaign to free Pari from detention and to convince the South Korean government that her life will be at risk in the likelihood of her being deported.
The UNHCR office in South Korea is said to have sought a lawyer to follow up the case and is seeking asylum for Pari, Cheery Zahau said. – Khonumthung.
