Asylum Seekers Archives - KHRN
Kurdish asylum seeker faces deportation despite parents’ asylum grant in Sweden
Ashkan Sarvari, a 21-year-old Christian convert and Kurdish political asylum seeker from Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, faces the risk of forcible deportation from Sweden after his asylum application
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Turkish appeals court upholds Kurdish asylum-seeker’s sentence
The second branch of the Court of Appeals in Van, south-eastern Turkey, has upheld the six-year, three-month prison sentence handed down to Kurdish environmental activist and former political
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Political asylum seeker detained in Turkey faces deportation risk
Zanyar Aziznezhad, a 37-year-old Kurdish asylum-seeker from Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, who has been detained in Turkey for around four months and is currently being held in a camp in Kocaeli in
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Iranian, Afghan asylum seekers at risk of deportation from Turkey
Turkish authorities today moved at least 20 Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers from a refugee camp in Edirne, north-west Turkey, to an undisclosed location for deportation. Shahla Chorkeh, the wife
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Greece: Kurdish refugee on hunger strike outside UNHCR office demands resettlement
Kurdish refugee Anwar Nillufary is on his third hunger strike since 2017 in front of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Athens, Greece, demanding his resettlement in another country. Nillufary had
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