GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday it was investigating accounts by rejected Iraqi asylum seekers deported from Britain that they were beaten by British border agents forcing them onto a plane.
"We are looking into the accounts of mistreatment among the rejected asylum seekers who were forcibly returned yesterday from the U.K.," UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic said.
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