Spain and Senegal agree to mitigate irregular migration but no immediate agreement on deportation was reached. Morocco has suspended deportation flights allowing Spanish authorities to return up to 80 Moroccans a week from the Canary Islands. Four dead bodies were...
In a landmark ruling the immigration court on 14 April found the Home Office in breach of human rights law in a case related to deaths in immigration detention. On the same day the Court of Appeal found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully in failing to obtain...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Hungary tracks recent developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. The state of crisis due to mass migration that has been...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Poland provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. The year 2020 continued to...
The updated AIDA country report on Cyprus documents the most recent developments in the national asylum system, i.e. legislative and practice-related changes in the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention and content of international protection. For the...
Amid a high-level EU visit to Turkey seeking to reconfirm the EU-Turkey Agreement, Greece alleges Turkish facilitation of migration to Europe. Meanwhile, reports of pushbacks continue to mount and the situation in camps across Greece remain dire. In their respective...
Additional cases concerning the Röszke transit zone have been lodged before the European Court of Human Rights. This comes as the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and others submit contributions to the third cycle of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of Hungary. Violent...
Sicilian prosecutors are under scrutiny by the Italian justice minister after wiretapping journalists and allegedly exposing their sources in the attempt to link civil search and rescue operators to human smuggling. Following delayed response to distress calls by...
Following clashes at Las Raíces camp that were met with rubber bullets by police forces, eight people were arrested and five of them placed in pre-trial detention. According to support groups, the inhumane treatment of people arriving to the archipelago’s shores is...
Another deportation flight took off on 7 April and forcibly returned 20 people to Afghanistan, despite the deteriorating security situation for the civilian population in the country. Tareq Alaows, a Syrian refugee, has withdrawn his candidacy for this year’s federal...
