The appeals court of Bari, in the Italian region of Puglia, upheld the sentence against the Italian interior ministry for damage to the city's image caused by the presence of the former Identification and Expulsion Center (CIE), where foreign citizens were detained in "inhumane and degrading conditions, harmful to their dignity."
Lydia Veyrat, a Beninese healthcare assistant employed in a home for the elderly, received an order to leave French territory. The local prefect argues that she is not sufficiently integrated into society. Her lawyer has filed a formal appeal with the interior ministry, denouncing the "ludicrous situation".
A number of countries, especially north-west African nations, are reluctant to issue consular papers for their undocumented nationals in France. These papers are needed for deportation. The problem is particularly acute for irregular migrants on terror watch-lists who are not wanted back in their home countries. To speed up expulsions, France has threatened to reduce visas to the countries in question.
In Belgium, 32-year-old Sammy Mahdi, the son of an Iraqi refugee, has just been appointed Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration. He said his goal is to increase deportations.
Police in Siracusa, Sicily, on September 11 carried out expulsion orders against 81 irregular migrants. The migrants were on board the quarantine ship Azzurra off the Sicilian port of Augusta.
Last year, German authorities ordered over 11,000 foreign nationals to leave the country, that's 32% more than the year before. An expulsion is issued when a foreigner is deemed a threat to public safety.
Oumar arrived in France when he was 16 years old and started studying catering. But as soon as he turned 18, his apprenticeship was abruptly terminated and he was ordered to leave France. This is his story.
Two unofficial migrants camps in the north of the Paris metropolitan area were evacuated by the police on Thursday, November 7 at dawn. The makeshift camps were situated at Porte de la Chapelle in the north of the French capital. The evacuations affected around 1,600 people, including numerous families who were bused to emergency accommodation.
The human rights watchdog spoke with dozens of refugees who were illegally removed from Turkey and sent back to Syria without a so-called "safe zone" in place. Turkey claims they went back willingly.
A group of NGOs in Italy and the Balkans have denounced that migrants along the Balkan migrant route continue to be illegally expelled from one state to the next. The Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe meanwhile has warned of a "humanitarian emergency" due to squalid conditions at the Vucjak migrant camp in Bosnia.
Close to 21,000 unregistered Syrian refugees and "illegal migrants" have been expelled from Istanbul since mid-July after the authorities had issued a deadline for them to leave the city and return to the provinces where they had registered. An additional 300,000 Syrians living in Istanbul face expulsion.
Migrant landings in Italy have plunged by almost 80%, but the number of repatriations has also gone down slightly, according to data released by the interior ministry on August 15. Migrant repatriations from the country have decreased by 0.7%. and the number of assisted repatriations has more than halved, the ministry said.