High school students in Cottbus, the second-largest city in Brandenburg Germany, are campaigning to save three new Afghan classmates from deportation. They said that their new friends have become a “big part of our school community,” and could be killed by Taleban back home. German high school students are fighting to keep their new Afghan classmates. The Waldorf School in the eastern city of Cottbus is trying to raise money to fight the legal case of the three Afghan teenagers, who say they will face forced recruitment to the Taleban, or death, back home. According to German media, “We are campaigning together for our classmates, who have become a big part of our school community, and we can’t just let them go,” said the school’s online petition, which has gathered nearly 50,000 signatures and is addressed to German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere and the Brandenburg state parliament. The three Afghan boys, named Wali, Nik Mohammad and Noorodin in a local newspaper report, all aged 19, have been attending the Waldorf School in Cottbus for a year along with four other Afghan refugees, though they have lived in Germany much longer.
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