Source: Amnesty International Ukraine
Amnesty International has condemned the mistreatment of eight Afghan citizens awaiting deportation from Ukraine, who are being beaten by border guards and denied adequate food, water and medical treatment. Continue reading ‘Afghan citizens beaten in detention at Ukraine airport’
The numbers of migrants trying to cross into the EU from Ukraine appear to be falling, no doubt because EU assistance has reinforced Ukrainian border patrols. But an alarming report by Human Rights Watch suggests that ill-treatment of migrants on the Ukrainian side may also be part of the deterrent.
Continue reading ‘France 24: Asylum seekers face abuse at the gates of Europe’
Source: No Border Project – Social Action Centre
On 2 March 2011 in the premises of the Kyiv City Migration Service (KMS), right after receiving a rejection in refugee status from that authority, a refugee Denis Solopov was detained by police. Migration Service where refugees are supposed to come and ask for protection turned out to be a trap, where they are caught on demand of their persecutors.
Continue reading ‘Ukraine: Refugee is imprisoned again because he is a refugee’
Since 2008 the BMPU-project is documenting cases of unlawful returns (“refoulement”) from neighbouring EU-countries to Ukraine. But even if refugees and other vulnerable migrants manage to enter the Hungarian asylum system, they are first confronted with month in detention and after their release they have to live under highly precarious conditions.
Find the UNHCR-study about homeless refugees in Budapest here.
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