Archiv des Autors: mf

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

Statement about the latest developments

Publiziert am 19. Juli 2014 von mf

In the light of the latest developments in the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in Bulgaria Bordermonitoring is sad to observe its most feared concerns coming true. It became apparent that the solutions to the refugee crisis with regards … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit accomodation, asylum seekers, Dublin, economic disparity, fence, Homelessness, humanitarian status, Refugees, SAR, State agency for refugees, status, status-holder, Violence | Kommentare deaktiviert

New report available

Publiziert am 7. Juli 2014 von mf

Trapped in Europe’s Quagmire: The situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Bulgaria is Bordermonitoring’s report on Bulgaria. The making of the report was undertaken by four independent researchers and follows structural conditions in the country which place asylum-seekers and … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Asylum procedure, border, Camps, Chaos, Exclusion, Far-Right, Homelessness, humanitarian status, institutions, integration, legal experts, Non-Refoulement, Push-Back, racism, racists assaults, Refoulement, Restrictions, status, status-holder, Street Violence, subsidiary protection, unwanted, Violence, vulnerable, Xenophobia | Kommentare deaktiviert

New report available tomorrow!

Publiziert am 6. Juli 2014 von mf

The reports on stories collected in Bulgaria, while the journalist Andrea Rehmsmeier, visited the country in the months of April and May 2014. The broadcast covers the hardships that status-holders endure after the granting of their status. As a 19 year … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Bordermonitoring Bulgaria, Deutschlandradio, Far-Right, Homelessness, hooligans, integration, racism, Report, status, status-holder, subsidiary protection | 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

Is Bulgaria violating the Non-Refoulement Principle?

Publiziert am 18. November 2013 von mf

In 2012, the Bulgarian lawyer Valeria Ilareva stated that Bulgaria is sending asylum seekers to Greece without registering them as subjects that have sought protection. On the 11th of November, 2013, Bulgaria „closed the border“ to Turkey by sending 1166 policemen at the border. In a statement, … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Blood & Honour, border, Borderpolice, Bulgarian National-Radical Party, Council of Europe, fence, Greece, National Resistance, Nationalist Party of Bulgaria, Non-Refoulement, Ovcha Kupel, Refoulement, Strandzha, Syrian Refugees, Telish, Turkey, UNHCR, Xenophobia | Kommentare deaktiviert

Hungerstrike, revolt and xenophobia

Publiziert am 31. Oktober 2013 von mf

The last refugee hungers strike in Bulgaria took part less than a month ago. As of currently new strike has swept the detention center in Busmantsi, near Sofia. A few days later, refugees went on a hunger strike in Lyubimets and … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Busmantsi, Detention Center, Harmanli, hooligans, Hungerstrike, Ministry of Interior, Pastrogor, racism, Refugee, Revolt, SAR, State agency for refugees, Syria, Telish, VMRO, Xenophobia | Kommentare deaktiviert

Europe is building a new wall at the external border

Publiziert am 22. Oktober 2013 von mf

In the beginning of October 2013, the executive director of FRONTEX called the Bulgarian-Turkish border the „the most important land border in the EU„. In another interview, he admitted that – from time to time – the agency is involved in … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit border, Borderpolice, cameras, checkpoints, control, Elhovo, European Union, fence, FRONTEX, Harmanli, Kazanlak, racism, Refoulement, SAR, State agency for refugees, Syrian Refugees, Xenophobia | Kommentare deaktiviert

NGO calls for resignation of the Council of Ministers

Publiziert am 12. Oktober 2013 von mf

In Sofia, in the three shelters Ovcha Kupel, Voenna Rampa and Vrazhdebna, there are more than 2000 refugees now. Some places are in a very bad condition, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) said, one could find fleas, lice and worms. … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Aspia, BHC, BNT, Bulgarian National Television, Council of Minister, European Union, Eurosur, FRONTEX, Harmanli, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Kaliakra, Momchilgrad, Ovcha Kupel, racist, SAR, State agency for refugees, vessel, Voenna Rampa, Vrazhdebna, Xenios-Zeus, Xenophobia | Kommentare deaktiviert