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  • European Commission: 4th Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2012)

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The European Commission has released its Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum for 2012 which summarises the developments in these areas during the last year and includes an overview of challenges and a forward-looking perspective into 2013. It covers several areas of immigration as well as asylum, and provides the asylum figures for 2012.

    Read the full report here.

  • ECtHR decision in K.A.B. v Sweden, Application No. 17299/12, 5 September 2013

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The applicant, from Mogadishu (Somalia), sought asylum in Sweden in April 2009, allegedly to escape persecution by al-Shabaab, an Islamist group in Somalia. He claimed to have been persecuted for working with the American Friends Service Community from 1992 to 2005, including by way of threatening telephone calls telling him to stop spreading Christianity. After five interviews with the Swedish Migration Board, and an oral hearing before the Swedish Migration Court, the applicant's asylum claim was rejected, on grounds of vagueness and lack of credibility.

  • Applications invited for post of Director of EDAL

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The Irish Refugee Council (IRC) is seeking to appoint a Director to work on a contractual basis with the EDAL Project Manager.  The person is expected to take up responsibilities as soon as possible and must be available until the end of February 2014 when the current phase of EDAL will come to an end. 

    Post of Director

  • The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention statement upon the conclusion of its mission to Greece

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Greece from 21 January to 31 January. In its end-of-mission statement, the Group underlines several flaws in Greece's detention policies, in particular regarding asylum seekers. The Group notes that disproportionately long detention of asylum seekers with no application of alternatives and in absence of effective judicial review may be considered as arbitrary. Moreover, the Group considers that detention as long as 18 months (which is the maximum in Greece for asylum seekers) in deficient conditions may amount to unwarranted punishment.

  • ECtHR releases decision in Diallo v. the Czech Republic (Application No. 20493/07) [Articles 3, 13 and 41 ECHR]

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The applicants, Ibrahima Diallo and Mamadou Dian Diallo, are two Guinean nationals who were born in 1980 and 1985, respectively. In the autumn of 2006, they arrived at Prague airport by plane from Dakar (Senegal), having transferred in Lisbon. They both applied immediately for asylum claiming they would be detained, and possibly even killed, if they returned to Guinea where the police had been searching for them.

  • France: implementation of the CJEU judgment in the El Karem El Kott case: recognition of refugee status to Palestinians who had to flee an UNRWA camp

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The case concerns a couple of Palestinians who were recognised as refugees by the UNRWA. In 2003 they were forced to leave the refugee camp where they used to live in Jordan owing to a conflict with a local family, and went to France. They applied for asylum, but their claims were rejected by the French Asylum Office.

  • ECtHR decision in Baysultanova and Others v. Russia (no. 7461/08) [Arts. 2, 3, 5 and 13 ECHR]

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The applicants are Russian nationals who live in Grozny, the Chechen Republic. The case concerned the disappearance of Beslan Baysultanov, the applicants’ son and brother, respectively, in May 2000, after he had been taken away by armed men in uniforms.

  • The Dutch Refugee Council reports on the situation of Uyghur asylum seekers

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The Dutch Council for Refugees reports that it has been revealed that Chinese informants working as interpreters in asylum cases were passing on information regarding Uyghuri applications for asylum in the Netherlands. Seeking asylum is treated as an act of treason by the Chinese Government, which places returned Uyghurs in danger if suspected of applying for asylum

    More information is available at the DCR's website.

  • Asylum and migration on the agenda of the Parliamentary Assembly

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will be holding the second part of its 2013 Ordinary Session next week, during which two reports concerning asylum and migration issues will be discussed and adopted together with related resolutions and recommendations: Frontex: human rights responsibilities and Management of mixed migration and asylum challenges beyond the European Union's eastern border. Both reports have been prepared by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons. The debates are scheduled for Thursday 25 April.

  • ECtHR decision in D.N.W. v. Sweden (no. 29946/10) [Articles 2 and 3]

    Date: 
    Friday, October 4, 2013

    The applicant is an Ethiopian national who claimed asylum in Sweden in 2007 on the ground that he had been beaten, imprisoned and tortured after criticising the 2005 elections in his country. His asylum claim was rejected by the authorities who found that he had failed to prove any future risk of ill-treatment if he were sent back to Ethiopia. The applicant argued that his removal to Ethiopia would put him at risk of death or treatment contrary to Article 3.

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