InfoMigrants By DW Published on : 2021/04/13
Zero asylum seekers that is essentially the Danish government s ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe.
Aya Abo Daher had just graduated high school in the Danish town of Nyborg and was looking forward to celebrating the event with her friends at the end of June when she received an email from the Danish authorities that changed everything. The mail the Syrian student and her parents received stated that their residency permits would not be renewed. I was so sad, I felt so foreign, like everything in Denmark had been taken away from me, the 20-year old said. I sat down and just cried. At midnight, a friend drove me home to my family because I couldn t sleep.
Denmark tells Syrian refugees to return to Damascus
Zero asylum seekers that is essentially the Danish government s ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe.
The Danish government wants to send refugee Aya Abo Daher, seen here with her high school principal, back to Syria
Aya Abo Daher had just graduated high school in the Danish town of Nyborg and was looking forward to celebrating the event with her friends at the end of June when she received an email from the Danish authorities that changed everything. The mail the Syrian student and her parents received stated that their residency permits would not be renewed.
Zero asylum seekers that is essentially the Danish government's ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe.