sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - asylum-seeker

Source: expatica.com

-- The suicide of deported asylum seeker Andrej Donorov in 2003 continues to haunt controversial Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk.

Source: The Australian Newspaper

A WOMAN held at the nation's second-biggest immigration detention centre was allegedly raped repeatedly in front of her toddler because she could not lock the door to her room. The claim -- and reports of widespread drug abuse among detainees -- will be at the centre of an inve …

Background: Refugees as political advantage. Australia is famously a nation of immigrants, an idea which ignores a bunch of people who have been here for around 45 thousand years.

Source: indymedia.org.uk

On 19 January, 2006, an asylum seeker hanged himself in Harmondsworth detention center near Heathrow. 26-year-old Bereket Yohannes, from Eritrea, was found hanged in the showers at around 5.25am after several warnings that he would kill himself if deported.