UN refugee agency UNHCR has denounced Tajikistan for its continued "forced" repatriation of Afghan refugees. The Central Asian country reportedly keeps deporting Afghans despite the human rights violations in their home country.
Almost 6,200 foreigners were deported from Germany between January and June, according to media reports. The main three countries were North Macedonia, Albania and Georgia. Close to €600,000 were reportedly spent on controversial 'mini charter flights' carrying up to only four persons.
As a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany has for the time being stopped deporting people to eastern European nations like Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Romania. That's according to a media report.
A rejected Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker living in Denmark was subjected to physical force during her deportation, a video circulating on social media appears to show. Danish law allows the use of physical force against persons without legal residence status when they resist being deportated.
The extreme-right candidate Eric Zemmour has proposed to create, if he is elected president, a ministry of "remigration". The goal: "to send back one million" foreigners in five years on charter flights, and to get rid of "illegal immigrants, delinquents and foreign criminals, and foreigners on file". This proposal is riddled with problems.
The Swiss Refugee Council has called on the government to stop returning migrants with mental health problems to Italy. It says reception conditions in Italy remain extremely precarious, and deporting vulnerable people may be putting their human rights at risk.
The Cypriot interior minister said on Tuesday that the EU and its border agency Frontex have helped to streamline procedures to return rejected asylum seekers. The number of people arriving on the island nation lately has been soaring.
A report presented in Tunis by Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) and other associations disputes the inclusion of Tunisia in Italy's list of "safe countries of origin."
Afghans who have been refused asylum in Europe and have ended up back in Afghanistan are now in serious danger from the Taliban, an Afghan aid worker has told InfoMigrants.
The UN refugee agency has called for a stop to deportations to Afghanistan. It has also asked neighboring countries to keep their borders open and to welcome new Afghan refugees.
Germany and the Netherlands reversed course and decided to allow failed Afghan asylum seekers to stay temporarily amid the growing conflict in Afghanistan.
Stopping deportations would "motivate even more Afghan citizens to leave their home," the six states say. Afghan authorities have asked deportations to stop until October.