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6 November 2015 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the conditions in which an Iraqi asylum applicant A.Y. was held in detention at the Tychero border post amounted to ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’ which violated Article 3 of the European...
6 November 2015 According to UNHCR, no asylum seeker or migrant should be returned to Libya, including people rescued at sea and those who are not eligible for international protection. Returns would expose migrants to widespread violations of human rights and...
6 November 2015 From Wednesday to Sunday last week, over 60 people died in the Aegean Sea in a series of dramatic shipwrecks during the crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos, Kalymnos and Rhodes. On Wednesday alone, five shipwrecks were reported,...
6 November 2015 A new Amnesty International report found that in May and June 2015, the Australian authorities paid smugglers to return asylum seekers to Indonesia, without examining whether they would have faced risks of persecutions or serious abuses in the country...