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Pakistan orders 1.7 million Afghan asylum seekers out of country by November – BBC News
Pakistan has ordered all unauthorised Afghan asylum seekers – an estimated 1.7 million people – to leave the country by November. A spike in attacks along the two countries’ border, which Islamabad blames on Afghanistan-based operatives, has escalated tensions this year. It has also fuelled resentment in Islamabad, which on Tuesday announced a crackdown on “illegal” migrants. The Taliban government urged Pakistan to rethink its…
Mediterranean asylum seekers: 100,000 arrived in Italy this year
Hundreds of people have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy. Nearly 100,000 migrants and refugees have arrived on boats in Italy this year, more than double the number of this time last year. Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid went on a fishing boat south of the island of Lampedusa and has this report. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow…
UK moves asylum seekers to barge despite humanitarian concerns
The United Kingdom has begun moving some asylum seekers onto a large residential barge on its southern coast, as part of plans to use cheaper alternatives to hotels as temporary accommodation while asylum claims are processed. The government says it wants to limit the pull factors attracting asylum seekers to Britain, where more than 50,000 are currently living in hotels after they made the final…
Are asylum seekers safe in the UK? | The Stream
“I wasn’t safe in my country, and I’m not safe here.” Asylum seekers staying in UK emergency accommodation are living in fear following a spate of anti-refugee protests. Members of far-right group Patriotic Alternative have in recent days joined demonstrations outside hotels in Skegness, Knowsley and Rotherham that the UK Home Office is using to house people awaiting the outcome of their asylum applications. Patriotic…
Claims of injured asylum seekers turned away from Lithuania
Lithuania has turned away thousands of refugees and migrants in the past year say human rights groups. Despite having an official policy to medically assess them first, Al Jazeera met some asylum seekers who say they had serious injuries when they were rejected. Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Vilnius, Lithuania. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook…
UK court says flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda can go ahead
Judges have thrown out last-gasp attempts by campaigners to stop the United Kingdom sending its first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday, a plan the United Nations’ refugee chief described as “catastrophic”. Charities and a trade union had launched an appeal against the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to the East African nation after the High Court on Friday ruled the first…
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