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.
For years, hundreds of people with refugee protection in the EU who saw no future for themselves in their receiving member state found a second chance in Iceland. This is now changing.
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Deportation flights of asylum-seekers to Afghanistan remain controversial, due to the precarious security situation there.
Protesters assembled at Berlin airport s Terminal 5 late Wednesday to speak out against a deportation flight of asylum-seekers whose claims were denied to Afghanistan that evening. Around 350 people showed up to the protest, exceeding estimates of 50 to 75 people.
Jetzt am BER! 500 Leute protestieren gegen die Abschiebung nach Afghanistan und versuchen, sie zu stoppen.
The demonstrators carried signs calling on the authorities to cancel the deportation flight, with some protesters blocking access roads to the airport. The protests were organized by the Brandenburg Refugee Council and ended after the plane left for Afghanistan.
InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/03/10
Twenty-six Afghan men arrived in Kabul early Wednesday on a deportation flight from Germany. Over 1,000 Afghan asylum seekers have now been returned from Germany since 2016.
On Wednesday (March 10) a chartered plane operated by Spanish company Privilege Style landed in the Afghan capital Kabul shortly after 7 a.m. carrying 26 Afghan men. It was the 37th deportation flight from Germany to Afghanistan since December 2016, bringing to 1,015 the number of asylum seekers sent back to Afghanistan since then.
Critics of group deportations continue to claim that Afghanistan is too dangerous for return, with attacks by Taliban militants occurring almost daily. The Islamic State militia also remains active in the country.