Schlagwort: Refugees
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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 […]
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Germany and Great Britain: Confiscation of asylum seekers‘ mobile phones can be illegal
In many cases, European authorities confiscate the phones of refugees after they have crossed the border in order to check their identity or to identify those helping them to flee. The people concerned do not always get their devices back. This means additional stress in the asylum procedure. The Home Office in London admitted on […]
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Frontex and Europol: How refugees are tracked digitally
EU agencies advise increased confiscation and extraction of asylum seekers‘ mobile phones and now provide a manual on how to do so. Apps to encrypt or disguise locations are disliked in the report as „countermeasures“ to surveillance. Often the mobile phones they carry are the only connection between refugees and their relatives and friends in […]
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New camps in Greece: Panopticon for refugees
A „hotspot“ for asylum seekers is opening on Samos, which inmates describe as „Guantanamo“. The EU Commission finds such facilities dignified, and therefore finances them completely. The pilot project will be monitored with motion detectors, behavioural recognition and drones. Two weeks ago, the Greek government opened the first of six new camps for refugees on […]