Greece: Asylum-seeking man found hanged at Piraeus port

Man carrying asylum application papers found dead close to a passenger ferry terminal in Greece’s biggest port. Greek authorities are investigating the apparent suicide of a man, believed to be a refugee, at the port of Piraeus. The man, who was carrying asylum application papers, was found hanged early on Monday close to a passenger …

Bangor University student has deportation order lifted at eleventh hour

A Sri Lankan Bangor University student has had her deportation rescinded by the UK’s Immigration minister after a last ditch meeting with her MP finally forced a U-turn. Plaid Cymru’s Hywel Williams announced the decision late this evening that Shiromini Satkunarajah and her mother Roshina were being released immediately from Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre …

Hungary opens shipping container camp for refugees

Hungary was due to begin detaining asylum-seekers in shipping-container camps on its southern border with Serbia on Tuesday. Asylum-seekers entering Hungary as well as those already in the country will be confined in camps while their applications are processed. A statement by the interior ministry said the country’s prison service installed 324 shipping container homes …

Bulgaria: Dinko Valev, the xenophobic vigilante who forces refugees to stay

There is a so-called “Refugee Hunter” called Dinko Valev who has become infamous within Bulgaria and the EU for assaulting and illegally detaining asylum seekers who he finds have entered Bulgaria from the Turkish border. There are also other far-right groups copying the actions of the “Refugee Hunter” such as the Association for the Protection …

Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up Sicilian farming

night for almost three years, Nicoleta Bolos lay awake at night on a dirty mattress in an outhouse in Sicily’s Ragusa province, waiting for the sound of footsteps outside the door. As the hours passed, she braced herself for the door to creak open, for the metallic clunk of a gun being placed on the …

More than 40 refugees killed in helicopter attack on boat in Yemen while trying to flee civil war

More than 40 Somali refugees have been killed in an attack on a boat off the coast of Yemen while attempting to flee the country’s brutal civil war. Coastguard authorities in the Houthi rebel stronghold of Hodeida said a helicopter gunship attacked the vessel they were travelling on in the Red Sea. A Yemeni people …

Danish opposition party demands immigrants celebrate Christmas ‘if they want to be Danish’

A right-wing political party in Denmark is calling for refugees and immigrants to celebrate Christmas and other Christian festivals in order to be considered “Danish”, sparking outrage from opponents. Martin Henriksen, the Danish People’s Party (DPP) immigration spokesperson, said going to church would put new arrivals “on the right track”. “We believe that those who …

Rising self-harm, depression seen among refugee children in Greek camps

Children stuck in Greek migrant camps are cutting themselves, attempting suicide and using drugs to cope with “endless misery,” international charity Save the Children said on Thursday. Reuters obtained an advance copy of a report that marks one year since the European Union struck a deal with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees and …

Danish minister sparks furious backlash after celebrating tougher immigration laws with cake

A Danish minister has sparked a furious backlash after she shared a photo celebrating increased immigration controls. Integration minister Inger Støjberg posted the photograph of a celebration cake to social media after her 50th amendment to tighten immigration controls was ratified earlier this week. The minister is seen holding a cake featuring the number 50 …

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