Polish serviceman Emil Czeczko, who escaped to Belarus, informed investigators of the murder of over 240 refugees at the Polish-Belarusian border, the Belarusian Investigative Committee announced Wednesday. “During the criminal case investigation, Emil Czeczko disclosed that he and his fellow servicemen had participated in organized murders in the border area and near the settlement of …
Danish government likely to exempt Ukrainians from controversial refugee ‘jewellery law’
The immigration spokesman for the Social Democratic government, Rasmus Stoklund, told newspaper Ekstra Bladet that the law should not be applied to Ukrainians who come to Denmark to escape the Russian invasion of their country. The so-called ‘jewellery law’ was passed in 2016 by the previous government and was the subject of domestic and international …
Israeli Minister: 90% of Ukrainian Refugees Arriving Are non-Jews, Situation ‘Cannot Go On’
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said Sunday said that over 90 percent of Ukrainians arriving at the Israel’s borders are not Jewish and that the influx of refugees “cannot go on.” The Interior Minister said that less than 10 percent of the 2,034 Ukrainian nationals that have entered Israel since the war in Ukraine broke out …
Amnesty criticises France for alleged rights failings and ‘double standard’ on refugees
In its annual report on the status of human rights in the world, rights group Amnesty International criticised France’s rights record, in particular its refugee policy. The report claims that French rights failings and ‘double standard(s)’ leave many living in squalid and humiliating circumstances while Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion are being treated differently from those …
Ukraine matters, but so did Bosnia 30 years ago. Where was the outcry then?
This week, we shall be subjected to further appalling reports from Ukraine: murderous brutality and human suffering and resilience at its receiving end. President Vladimir Putin’s invasion has been condemned as the worst violence in Europe since the Second World War. But 30 years ago this week, a similar atrocity was detonated in Bosnia-Herzegovina. On …
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Greece deploying migrants to expel migrants, Human Rights Watch alleges
Human Rights Watch has made fresh allegations against Greece. The organization accuses the country not only of continuing to engage in the illegal pushback of migrants at its borders but also employing third country nationals, other migrants, to do so. “Greek authorities, including through proxies they use, are assaulting, robbing, and stripping Afghan asylum seekers …
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Investigation claims Frontex involved in Aegean sea migrant pushbacks
A new investigation claims that the European Border and Coast Guard Agency or Frontex has been involved in forcing back at least 957 asylum seekers in the Aegean sea between March 2020 and September 2021. Pushing back people who enter EU territorial waters is illegal under the bloc’s regulations and member state and international laws. …
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UK aims to send the first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda on June 14
Britain aims to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks’ time as part of a policy which the government says is designed to break people-smuggling networks and stem the flow of migrants across the Channel. In April, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced plans to send some of the people …
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Greece pushes back more than 41,000 migrants since 2020: Report
The report also said that 53 irregular migrants in 2021 and 33 others in 2022 lost their lives – either drowned or froze to death – due to pushbacks. “In some of the pushback incidents in the seas, irregular migrants were handcuffed from behind, were not given life jackets and thrown into the sea. In …
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Revealed: Greek police coerce asylum seekers into pushing fellow migrants back to Turkey
In a militarised border zone, in the dead of night, asylum seekers say they have been coerced into violent, illegal pushback operations run by Greek police. Kept locked up between operations, the asylum seekers claim they were forcibly recruited or lured there by a Syrian man living in a container in the yard of a …
