Tag: Deportation
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Church asylum in Germany defended: Deportation of Syrian refugee stopped
A German foreigners authority wanted to deport a Syrian to Malta. 150 people therefore protested at the site of his sanctuary in a church in Darmstadt. The Mainz-Bingen foreigners authority from Rhineland-Palatinate stopped the deportation of 35-year-old Syrian Abderrahman G. from a so-called church asylum on Thursday. After the expiry of a deadline in the […]
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Deportation even without a crime: German MoI wants to punish alleged members of “clans” collectively
Some German states want to apply regulations from the fight against terrorism against “clan criminality”. To this end, the Residence Act might be amended. The German Ministry of the Interior (MoI), led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), proposes that it should be possible to deport foreigners even if they are only suspected of belonging […]
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Germany accepts torture: Authority knows evidence in Turkey but wants to deport a Kurdish man
At least twelve Kurds are currently being detained in Germany on charges of supporting the PKK. Others are threatened with deportation to Turkish prisons. A Bavarian foreigners authority wants to deport a Kurd to Turkey, although it has been proven that he was tortured there. According to the decision to reject his asylum application in […]
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„European Return Centre“: How Frontex oils the EU deportation machine
Rejected asylum seekers are to be returned to their country of origin with “restraint techniques” and in a climate-neutral way. Part of the EU’s migration policy is to return rejected asylum seekers to their countries of origin or to other third countries outside Europe. Frontex is to provide more support to the member states for […]