This week the first summary deportation of rejected asylum seekers from Afghanistan to Kabul took place. According to media 26 men have been deported from Frankfurt to Kabul. This is the second summary deportation to Afghanistan carried out from Germany. The first...
This week a coalition of NGOs has reiterated their concerns over the conditions at the Emergency Reception Centre (CAS) in Cona close to Venice amid controversial government plans aiming to improve the reception conditions in the country. ECRE Member ASGI together...
A new report “Pushed back at the Door” by five human rights NGOs shows that access to protection is increasingly limited in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. The report urges European governments to find the right balance between protecting...
This week several Belgian human rights organisations released a report on the state of closed migration detention centres in Belgium. The report, the first of its kind in ten years, finds that the administrative detention of hundreds of asylum seekers and other...
The High Court of England and Wales ruled on 20 January 2017 that asylum seekers have been denied justice for 10 years under the Detained Fast-Track (DFT), used by the Home Office to accelerate the examination of asylum claims. After the Detained Fast-Track appeal...
