Tag: Refugees
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Refugees against German Register of Foreigners: Constitutional Complaint against “Second Class Data Protection”
Several organisations and associations support a constitutional complaint against the Central Register of Foreigners. They argue that the data collection is out of control and violates fundamental rights. Eleven refugees filed a constitutional complaint on Tuesday against the amendment to the Central Register of Foreigners (AZR), which came into force in November 2022. The plaintiffs […]
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Berlin knew about crimes in Saudi Arabia: Security agreement not be terminated despite massacres
Four months before a UN report, the German government knew about reports of massacres of refugees in Saudi Arabia. However, trainings of the federal police continued. Oil guards also benefit. The German government had long had indications of human rights violations by Saudi security forces on the border with Yemen and nevertheless continued its police […]
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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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LeaveNoOneBehind project: An app for the right to asylum
The project “Claim Asylum EU” aims to help people seeking protection in the European Union. This is necessary because the border authorities at the EU’s external borders are breaking international law on a massive scale. In the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, signatory states agreed to enshrine the fundamental right to […]