The National Commission for the Prevention of Torture has criticized Switzerland for using inappropriate force during deportation. One pregnant woman was restrained in front of her children and forced to breastfeed while handcuffed.
The migrant reception network of the Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region in northeastern Italy has requested an "adequate and in-depth investigation" into the suicide of a young Pakistani migrant inside the center for repatriation and asylum seekers (CPR) of Gradisca d'Isonzo.
Syria and Lebanon are about to launch a controversial repatriation program for "tens of thousands" of refugees who fled from war in Syria. Meanwhile, migrants who want to reach Europe continue to make use of the porous borders between the two countries.
The Human rights and immigration commission of the lawyers' guild in the southern Italian city of Caltanissetta has complained about a critical situation at the local CPR repatriation center.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that nearly 50,000 migrants have voluntarily returned to their countries of origin in 2021, an increase of 18% compared to 2020.
With the first convoy of 88 refugees, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR on July 19 resumed the voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after departures were halted in 2020.
Lebanon says that Syrian refugees may be expelled from the country if the international community does not repatriate them. But a UN representative in Turkey warned this week that conditions in Syria are not suitable for return.
Italian Interior minister Luciana Lamorgese said on Wednesday that about 850 migrants had been repatriated since the beginning of 2022.
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.
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.
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.
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.