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“You forced me to claim asylum”: Baltic pushbacks, a personal story
Tag: Asylum seekers
Wethersfield camp causing irreparable harm to asylum seekers
“I came through Libya, and this place is no different.”
Quasi-detention conditions on the Bibby Stockholm
Cabins on board the Bibby Stockholm, designed for single occupancy, now have bunk beds, and people must share with strangers. Each person’s living space is smaller than the average car park bay.
Asylum seeker hangs himself rather than move to the Bibby Stockholm
An air ambulance later transported him to Colchester Hospital, where he remains on life support.
EU Law revision — border guards decide asylum claimants
EU ministers are set to approve a change to existing law that would essentially allow border guards to decide who has the right to seek asylum
Croatia: A new detention centre, but no solutions
European policies tend to support technical equipment, unreliable securitisation plans and procedures, and questionable police centres rather than new, effective, common policies on migration.
Happy Christmas and welcome to the streets
As 2022 draws to a close so does the ESTIA programme in Greece. This year, the eviction of thousands of people from their homes was a very purposeful decision by the Greek government who turned down EU funding which would have seen the programme run until 2027 – a fact they then lied about publicly,
Save ASIRT: Asylum seeker legal support charity threatened with closure
A charity who provides free legal advice to asylum seekers in Birmingham and the West Midlands is closing down, despite being financially healthy. Trustees of the charity have rejected attempts by the workers’ union, United Voices of the World (UVW) to negotiate with them, after the workers’ asked for union recognition and an end to
Special from Greece: Protests on Samos CCAC shed light on procedural violations
AYS: On Monday 5th September, asylum seekers in the EU-funded Closed Control Access Centre (CCAC) on Samos held a protest against their treatment by the Greek authorities. Holding a banner that reads “Samos Camp — There is no Human Rights #saynorejections” the group demanded their human rights be respected, which includes having their claims for
Glasgow: Mears Group Evades Responsibility as Asylum-Seekers in Hotels Refuse Food and Call for Protest Action
Over twenty asylum-seeking individuals forcibly moved by the Mears group into cramped hotel accommodation in Glasgow have been refusing to eat the mouldy, undercooked and culturally inappropriate food that Mears provides and are calling for action to protest the Mears group’s abysmal, dehumanising treatment of people they receive public money to provide safe accommodation for.
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Anarchist on a talk show
Peter Seyferth reports on his experience combating "horseshoe theory" on the German talk show 13 Fragen (“13 questions”).
Palestinian detainees “have lost hands or feet”
Innocent Gazans face torture and death in Israeli detention camps.
Russian Anarchist “will finish tenth grade in pre-trial detention”
Lyubov Lizunova is accused of terrorism for a "Death to the Regime" graffiti and "approving" the arson of military recruitment offices
As night follows day, repression follows Thatcherism
The naïve ones believe that the economic system that is causing the trouble will also miraculously save us all.
Palestine Action blockades Elbit’s Instro Precision
Direct action has again halted production at Instro, a subsidiary of Israel's largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, preventing all entry.
