All men in group of Russians recently deported from the U.S. were handed military draft notices upon arrival in Moscow

On Dec. 8, a planeload of deportees flew from the United States to Egypt. After it arrived in Cairo, a special flight transported a total of 64 passengers along to Moscow, the independent outlet Mediazona reported, citing the husband of one of the passengers. All of the men on board received draft notices from military enlistment offices upon arrival.

Activist Dmitry Valuev, president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, also confirmed the information to the independent publication Agentstvo.

According to Mediazona, the plane’s passengers had their phones handed back to them after landing in Moscow, but officers from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) did not release the passengers for hours, and withheld their documents throughout the wait. The plane landed in Moscow at 2:39 a.m. local time, but the woman interviewed by Mediazona’s source was able to leave the airport only at around 12:20 p.m.

This is the third mass deportation of Russians from the U.S. since the beginning of the year. In addition to Russian citizens, the initial flight to Cairo also carried dozens of Iranians, along with a handful of deportees from Arab countries.