Schlagwort-Archive: Harmanli

Bulgaria restricts Freedom of Movement for asylum seekers

Publiziert am 29. September 2017 von mf

On the 21st of September 2017 the Bulgarian government released a regulation about the restriction of the freedom of movement for registered asylum seekers in Bulgaria. The imposed limits are defined in perimeters for the asylum seekers who are registered … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Banya, Freedom of Movement, Harmanli, Haskovo, Pastrogor, Sliven, Sofia, State agency for refugees | Schreib einen Kommentar

Harmanli: The days after the riot

Publiziert am 30. November 2016 von mf

It was reported that after the riots, in the night, around 9 p.m. the police stormed into the three buildings, which are inhabited by asylum seekers predominantly from Afghanistan. They have beaten severely all men and teenage boys for two hours and … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Elhovo, Harmanli, riot, State agency for refugees, UNHCR | Schreib einen Kommentar

The provoked riot in Harmanli’s refugee camp

Publiziert am 24. November 2016 von mf

Today, after more than two days of quarantine, at noon a massive riot broke out in Harmanli’s refugee camp, which is located not far way from the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The revolting migrants protested against the closing of the camp and for … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Georgi Kostov, Harmanli, police, police violence, riot, water cannon | Schreib einen Kommentar

Harmanli’s refugee camp under Quarantine

Publiziert am 22. November 2016 von mf

Tomorrow, the 22rd of November 2016, the camp in Harmanli will be functioning as a closed refugee camp. While the Deputy Minister of Health Vanio Sharkov announced the closing as a temporally one, after a meeting of the chairwoman of the … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Harmanli, Ministry of Health, quarantine, State agency for refugees | Schreib einen Kommentar

Bulgaria’s government approved changes for a restricted movement regime

Publiziert am 2. September 2016 von mf

Last week, changes were approved by the Bulgarian government to the statute of the national refugee agency of Bulgaria. Basically, the changes will restrict the movement of asylum seekers in the open centers of the State Agency for Refugees (SAR) … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Boyko Borisov, Detention, Harmanli, Petya Parvanova, Rumyana Bachvarova, SAR | Schreib einen Kommentar

Ministry of Interior searches new space for refugee camps

Publiziert am 23. März 2016 von mf

Recently, talks about accommodating refugees in a 200 square meters big old military barracks in Kresna (Blagoevgrad Province) triggered a large, and in some cases xenophobic, protest on the 21st of March, held by Bulgarian citizens in Kresna. About a thousand … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Banya, Harmanli, Ministry of Interior, Ovcha Kupel, Pastrogor, Petya Parvanova, SAR, State agency for refugees, Voenna Rampa, Vrazhdebna | Schreib einen Kommentar

The EU/Turkey-agreement and (possible) effects on Bulgaria

Publiziert am 20. März 2016 von mf

As the EU-Turkey agreement came into effect on today, the 20th March 2016, there could again emerge a tremendous change of the main route, that people use to move towards Western Europe. Greece will turn literally into a detention zone and many migrants will … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit border, Boyko Borisov, Detention, Donald Tusk, Hans Peter Doskozil, Harmanli, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Kristalina Georgieva, Ministry of Interior, Push-Back, SAR, State agency for refugees, Voenna Rampa, Vrazhdebna | Schreib einen Kommentar

Excessive police violence in Voenna Rampa, Sofia

Publiziert am 1. August 2014 von mf

A video, published by Bulgarian National Television, shows police men beating an asylum-seeker in the camp in Voenna Rampa, Sofia. The incident has taken place on July 30th 2014, when a group of asylum-seekers protested their removal from the camp in Sofia … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit BNT, Bulgarian National Television, Deportation, Harmanli, Homelessness, humanitarian status, Hunger Strike, integration, Integration program, Police brutality, police violence, poverty, resitance, SAR, Sofia, State agency for refugees, status, status-holder, subsidiary protection, Violence, Voenna Rampa | Kommentare deaktiviert

Child beaten at EU-Border: Brutal Push-Backs continue in Bulgaria

Publiziert am 25. April 2014 von mf

On April 21st, 2014 Border Monitoring Bulgaria (BMB) recorded yet another case of a push-back of a single Syrian mother with her four children (10, 17, 22, 24 years old) accompanied by severe police violence. Relatives reported that in their … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit border, Borderpolice, Dublin, Elhovo, Harmanli, Human Rights Watch, Pastrogor, Push-Back, Refoulement, Syrian Refugees, Turkey, UNHCR, Violence | Kommentare deaktiviert

The struggle in the camps continues

Publiziert am 19. Dezember 2013 von mf

On 19th of November, refugees in Harmanli have gone on a hunger strike in the „closed type“ camp of Harmanli, among them more than 100 people, including children. Refugees tried to prevent a truck to enter the camp. Several refugees in … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Busmantsi, Camps, Dublin, Harmanli, Hunger Strike, Lyubimets, Nils Muižnieks, Ovcha Kupel, Refugees of the Syrian civil war, resistance, SAR, Sofia, State agency for refugees, struggle, UNHCR | Kommentare deaktiviert