Stealth, it the same in lot of other countries especially the ex Russian federation ones. When I was in Kazakhstan, 2 of my work mates were woken up in the middle of the night, had a AK47 shoved up the nose were taken to the airport and made to fly home.....reason, undisirable foreigner..........real reason, we never found out.
Oh by the way, they made the guys of course buy there air tickets.....which they never got back fron there company as they were contractors.