Police stormed a post office in western Germany on Tuesday after two asylum seekers tried to send a package containing a thank-you gift for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. An employee at a postal centre at a petrol station in Naunheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate called police after the two asylum seekers, who are father …
UN: Mediterranean death toll passes 5,000 refugees
Some 100 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in two shipwrecks on Thursday which brought the Mediterranean death toll a record 5,000 in 2016, the U.N. said on Friday. “Around 100 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday. The Italian coastguard carried out four rescue operations in …
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Refugee deaths reach new high in 2016, IOM reports
International Organization for Migration said that the organization had recorded the highest yearly migrant deaths worldwide since the statistics started, with 7,189 migrants and refugees dying or missing on their migratory routes. The number of migrants feared to have died this year has soared to nearly 7,200, a more than 20-percent increase over 2015, with …
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Germans worried about how to pay for refugees, survey says
A majority of Germans fear the government will have to tighten its belt to take care of new refugees, a survey suggests. Despite falling numbers of newcomers, many believe migration is fueling an increase in crime. Refugees and integration top the list as Germany’s biggest problem, according to survey results released on Friday. The figures …
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German asylum law fails to protect refugees’ human rights, report says
In a sign of how Germany’s “Willkommenskultur,” or welcoming culture, has faded since a record number of refugees arrived last year, the hardening of the regulations that make up the German asylum law was criticized by the German Institute for Human Rights in an annual report on the development of the human rights situation in …
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Obama administration defends immigrant detention practices before supreme court
The Obama administration went before the Supreme Court Wednesday to again defend its immigration policy, this time seeking to overturn a lower-court decision that found detention practices for some immigrants were too harsh. Last year, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco voided the government’s practice of indefinite mandatory detention for several …
Hungary sentences Syrian migrant to 10 years in jail for border riot
A Hungarian court on Wednesday sentenced a Syrian-Cypriot man to 10 years in jail his part in a riot at the border with Serbia last year, when he hurled rocks at police in an attempt to force the border open, deemed an “act of terror” under Hungarian law. Ahmed Hamed, 40, broke into tears as …
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Refugee crisis: More than 100 asylum seekers drown as boat sinks in the Mediterranean Sea
More than 100 refugees have drowned after a boat sank in rough conditions in the Mediterranean Sea as the crisis shows no sign of slowing. The Italian Navy was searching for survivors from the vessel, which was believed to be carrying up to 110 people. Only four survivors were pulled from the water, with at …
Refugee-tripping Hungarian camerawoman sentenced to probation
A Hungarian camerawoman who made headlines in 2015 after being filmed kicking refugees, including children, has been found guilty of breaching public peace and sentenced to three years of probation. The actions of Petra Laszlo triggered “indignation and outrage,” Judge Illes Nanasi, in the city of Szeged, Hungary, said on Thursday, as cited by AFP …
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Over 1,000 march in memory of asylum-seeker killed by fire in German Police custody
A commemoration march marking 12 years since the death of Oury Jalloh, an asylum-seeker who was killed by a fire in a police cell in Dessau, attracted an estimated 1,100 people on Saturday. The case of Jalloh, a Sierra Leone national, sparked outrage after the public learned how he was restrained to a mattress as …
