Advocacy groups have filed criminal charges against Germany’s foreign and interior ministers on Friday, accusing them of “failing to prevent” Afghan nationals from deportation in Pakistan, “despite having been granted admission to Germany.”

34 Afghan nationals, who had applied for asylum in Germany, were deported from Pakistan by Pakistani officials just days before the lawsuit was filed. It was lodged by refugee advocacy group PRO ASYL and the Patenschaftsnetzwerk Ortskräfte, naming Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt as defendants.

In the press release by PRO ASYL on the lawsuit, the group highlights an expert opinion drafted by a Berlin criminal defense attorney alleging that the ministers have committed “abandonment” and “failure to render as

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