Category: Asylum seeker
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House to Host Executives for First ‘Crypto Summit’
Trump Says He Asked Iran to Open Nuclear Talks Image President Trump is seeking to negotiate with the Iranian government regarding nuclear weapons.Credit…Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He…
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How Many Immigrants Will Die in U.S. Custody?
A cluster of Customs and Border Protection jails stretches from the Rio Grande to the Pacific; farther north, they dot the woods and mountains along the Canadian frontier. Most of the jails are austere, even by the grim standards of detention centers. The communal cells are generally concrete rectangles, without beds or other furnishings. They…
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Young asylum seeker’s dream to box for Ireland
BBC Mujeeb Rahman, 18, fled war-torn Afghanistan when he was just 13 and now lives in Derry A young asylum seeker who fled war-torn Afghanistan when he was just 13 has said his dream is to fight for his country – in the boxing ring. Mujeeb Rahman’s life in 2019 – a year when more…
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€1,500 and a one-way ticket: how Cyprus has been quietly deporting Syrian refugees
Statewatch and UntoldMag co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. For Abu Iskander Alshami the question of returning to a post-Assad Syria is fraught with uncertainty. “My situation is similar to 90% of Syrians – undecided,” he told The New Arab. We spoke with Alshami on 17 December 2024, just days after Syria’s…
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Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office
A record number of asylum seekers died last year while in the care of the Home Office, according to data obtained by the Guardian, and officials admit they do not know when some of them died. Fifty-one people died in Home Office-provided accommodation in 2024, an increase of 11 on the previous year, and a…
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Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office
A record number of asylum seekers died last year while in the care of the Home Office, according to data obtained by the Guardian, and officials admit they do not know when some of them died. Fifty-one people died in Home Office-provided accommodation in 2024, an increase of 11 on the previous year, and a…
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UN Watchdog Faults Australia For Treatment Of Migrants On Nauru
Text size Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing. The UN Human Rights Committee published decisions in two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who endured years of arbitrary detention in…
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UN Watchdog Faults Australia For Treatment Of Migrants On Nauru
Text size Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing. The UN Human Rights Committee published decisions in two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who endured years of arbitrary detention in…
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‘I came here as an asylum seeker and want to give something back’
‘I came here as an asylum seeker and want to give something back’ Simon Thake Saeid Hashemi came to the UK as an asylum seeker from Iran in 2020. He was granted refugee status in 2021. Saeid Hashemi came to the UK from Iran as an asylum seeker. After being granted refugee status, he settled…
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What’s next for Russia in Syria after Assad’s ouster?
On 8 December, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fell from power after a rapid-fire offensive led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group. While Assad’s ouster was widely celebrated in Syria and across the Arab world, the mood in Moscow was much less sanguine. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement released shortly after Assad’s arrival in…