Italy: Repatriates about 850 migrants in 2022
Italian Interior minister Luciana Lamorgese said on Wednesday that about 850 migrants had been repatriated since the beginning of 2022.
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IOM, Turkey delegates visit Bari repatriation center to examine 'best practices'
A delegation of Turkish officials accompanied by members of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from Turkey and Italy carried out a visit to a CPR repatriation center in in the southern Puglia region in Italy. The aim of the visit was to acquire information on best practices in the management of repatriation centers and the safeguard of human rights, officials said.
Cyprus: Repatriation key to easing migration pressure
After fights broke out in a migrant reception camp on Cyprus on Tuesday and Wednesday, the country's Interior Minister said that repatriation would be key to easing overcrowding.
Germany repatriates over a hundred irregular migrants to Bangladesh
Over the past twelve months Germany deported more than a hundred Bangladeshi migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected. Many other failed asylum seekers have voluntarily left the European country with financial support from the authorities in this period.
Lithuania lifts border emergency as arrivals cease
The Lithuanian interior minister says migrant arrivals from Belarus have stopped, while the foreign minister visited Iraqi officials to discuss the repatriation of Iraqi nationals stranded at the Belarus-Lithuania border.
Bodies of Kurdish migrants who drowned in English Channel repatriated
The bodies of at least 16 Kurdish migrants were returned to Iraq after their attempt to cross the English Channel ended in tragedy. The incident claimed a total of 27 lives.
More migrants flown back to Iraq from Belarus
The latest planeload of Iraqis who had traveled to Belarus in the hope of making it to Europe took off to northern Iraq from Minsk on Saturday, December 4.
In Italy, only one in two migrants held at repatriation centers is returned
Data provided by the Italian government showed that in 2021 only one in two migrants held at Italian repatriation centers was actually repatriated. Italy's National Guarantor for the Rights of Detained Persons has criticized the data.
Repatriation flights return hundreds of Iraqi nationals from Belarus
A second group of Iraqi nationals have returned to northern Iraq on two flights after spending weeks or months in Belarus trying to reach the European Union. Several said that they had suffered abuse at the hands of Belarusian authorities.
Returned Iraqi migrants claim they were tortured in Belarus and Poland
Migrants who returned to Iraq after being stranded at the Polish-Belarusian border for weeks have reported severe abuses by Polish and Belarusian police. Meanwhile, Poland's prime minister warned of a new surge in migrant arrivals, this time from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
Poland-Belarus border: Repatriated Iraqi migrants arrive home
A group of Iraqis arrived back in their country on board a plane sent by the Iraqi government. They had been stranded at the Poland-Belarus border in dire conditions.
Belarus migrant crisis: Iraq to begin repatriating citizens
Thousands of migrants are stuck at the Poland-Belarus border in dire conditions. Meanwhile, the UAE is stopping Afghan, Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from boarding flights from Dubai to Minsk.