Thousands of protesters on Saturday demonstrated against deportations of Afghans who failed to secure asylum.
Protestors, in several German cities called for authorities to stop the deportations stating Afghanistan was an unsafe country.
According to German police, around 2,000 protesters came out on the streets in Dusseldorf city of Germany and nearly 1,500 others in northern Hamburg city.
In Berlin, protesters marched on streets and police said that around 200 people took part while Berlin Refugee Council said there were up to 2,000.
"The people who are forced to return cannot live their lives in safety there. A life in dignity is inconceivable under these conditions," demonstration organizers in Hamburg told EBL news.
On Thursday German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the government agreed to speed up the deportation of rejected asylum seeker’s applications.
The Refugee Council of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which called for the Dusseldorf demonstration, said that Afghanistan is an unsafe country, and that a report by the UN's refugee agency shows the situation has deteriorated recently.
Meanwhile, in an interview with TOLOnews, Afghans who have returned from Europe said they were finding it extremely difficult to resettle.
Saber Safi, 28, who recently returned from France, said it took him a while to settle but now he has opened a small business in Kabul.
“What I saw there among Afghan refugees was very bad. Even dogs are not living the way refugees live there in Europe,” Safi said.
According to Safi’s father, his son had to borrow a substantial amount of money to start over. “But he says it is fine even if he earns 10 Afs a day,” said Bakhtawar Shah Safi.
According to reports, at least 200 Afghan refugees have returned to the country from Europe based on an agreement signed between Afghanistan and Germany last year.
The Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation’s spokesman Islamuddin Jurat said: “We are following the issue very closely and we assure you that the rights of no Afghan will be violated.”
According to figures by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at least 6,800 refugees have so far returned to the country voluntarily and the figure will increase this year.
“We continue our efforts to convince world countries – particularly the countries which accept migrants – to not only help them in their return but also provide them with facilities for resettling in their home country,” head of IOM’s communication office, Nasir Ahmad Ahmadzai said.