expulsion

• Afghanistan
• France

France last month suspended expelling Afghan migrants whose asylum applications had been rejected, due to the deteriorating security situation in the country as the Taliban presses an offensive, the government said Thursday.

• Greece
• Turkey

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, has highlighted that public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic cannot have the effect of denying asylum and protection to migrants. He denounced to the Human Rights Council last week the practice of collective expulsions carried out by some countries.

• Italy

A 23-year-old Guinean hanged himself in the night between Saturday and Sunday in a Turin migrant holding center (CPR) two weeks after being attacked by three people in Ventimiglia. The man had been facing expulsion from Italy.

• Ceuta & Melilla
• Morocco
• Spain

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told reporters that the more than 8,000 arrivals in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta were a "huge crisis for Spain and the whole of Europe." Members of the European Commission too have called the arrivals "worrying," and called for stronger partnerships to manage migration.

• Germany
• Senegal

In Germany, thousands of rejected asylum seekers without identification documents are called for interviews each year with foreign delegations and embassies, in order to determine their true identities and potentially expel them.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bosnian police on January 23 arrested 17 migrants accused of organizing violent protests in the hosting center of Blazuj, near Sarajevo, where incidents and clashes with police were recorded last week.

• Italy

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."

• France

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".

• France

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.

• Belgium

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.

• Italy

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.

• Germany

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.