Europe's human rights court has condemned Belgium for illegally returning a Sudanese national to his home country without assessing the risks of torture, and inhumane and degrading treatments. Belgium also violated his right to effective remedy.
CILD learned that a Covid-positive Gambian man with an Italian residence permit had been transferred to a quarantine ship, with no prior notice. Dozens of similar cases of migrants being quarantined in this way soon emerged.
The Hungarian state violated a journalist's rights by not letting him enter the territory of any of the country's refugee camps, affirmed the European Court of Human Rights. The journalist, Illés Szurovecz, was represented by HCLU in Strasbourg.
The Society for Civil Rights (GFF) is conducting a comprehensive study on the invasive search and inspection of asylum seekers' mobile phones by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).
With the so-called Dublin regulation of the European Union, the Commission has proposed temporary measures to "bridge" the deadlock between member states over the key asylum reform. EU states may now volunteer their...
Hungary's procedure to prevent ill-treatment is ineffective, a report by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has concluded. The report is based on...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday in his annual state of the union speech that the European Union plans to add 10,000 additional border guards by 2020 to tackle unlawful migration....
A new Hungarian law passed on Wednesday criminalizing anyone who supports asylum seekers and other vulnerable individuals is “blatantly xenophobic,” “shameful” and “disgraceful," UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al...
Poland's national Office for Foreigners has published the statistical data on the international protection granted by the country in 2017. But the numbers don't tell the whole story.
The German Medical Association spoke out against proposals for young asylum seekers to undergo mandatory medical tests to ascertain their age. They say the checks would be ethically wrong and unreliable. Tests such...
