Archiv des Autors: mf

Unaccompanied minors inside Bulgaria’s detention centers / Drills at the border to Greece

Publiziert am 9. März 2016 von mf

The Bulgarian Ombudswoman, Maya Manolova, announced this week that unaccompanied minors are placed in Bulgaria’s detention centers with other adults, “who are not members of their families or authorized companions“. The announcement was part of a report about the results of … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit army, border, Boyko Borisov, Detention, Detention Center, Foundation for Access to Rights, Greece, Kulata, Maya Manolova, Ombudsman, Refugees, unaccompanied minors, Valeria Ilareva | Schreib einen Kommentar

Ovcha-Kupel: A place of broken dreams

Publiziert am 5. März 2016 von mf

When Serbia recently started to deport refugees to Bulgaria, some of them stranded in the Reception Center for Asylum Seekers in Sofia/Ovcha Kupel. Jamal Anjuman*, who recently made it through the border to Serbia, but was deported by Serbian border police to the … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit asylum seekers, Borderpolice, Boyko Borisov, Nikola Kazakov, Ovcha Kupel, Rozaliya Dimitrova, SAR, Serbia, Sofia, State agency for refugees | Schreib einen Kommentar

Group of 34 people rescued in the forests between Bulgaria and Serbia

Publiziert am 29. Februar 2016 von mf

On the 28th of February, BMB received a message from a kurdish and arabic speaking group of 34 refugees, who were urgently calling out for help, via WhatsApp. The people were lost for days in the forests between Bulgaria and Serbia. A … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit border, Bulgaria, Detention, Detention Center, Lyubimets, Refugees, Serbia | Schreib einen Kommentar

Serbia starts deportations to Bulgaria

Publiziert am 23. Februar 2016 von mf

Two days ago, Bulgaria was warned by Serbian officials to tighten up the border who, by the same time, announced deportations back to Bulgaria. Simultaneously, new rules seem now to implemented in Dimitrovgrad and Preševo. On the 19th of February, Serbia has stopped … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit asylum seekers, Deportation, Dimitrovgrad, European Union, I am human (iHo), Infopark, Moving Europe, Preševo, Serbia | Schreib einen Kommentar

Head of SAR dismissed / Bulgaria was warned to tighten its border control / Refugee Hunters at the border

Publiziert am 22. Februar 2016 von mf

On the 22nd of February 2016, the government dismissed Nikola Kazakov, the chairman of the (SAR) State Agency for Refugees, and filled the position with Kircho Kirov (a former director of the National Intelligence Service). Kazakov was fired because of “irregularities” in spending money on … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit asylum seekers, Borderpolice, bTV, Dimitrovgrad, Kircho Kirov, Nikola Kazakov, paramilitary groups, Preševo, racist, Refugees, SAR, Serbia, State agency for refugees | Schreib einen Kommentar

Consensus in Bulgarian parliament about the army as border security

Publiziert am 15. Februar 2016 von mf

Last week, the Bulgarian parliament decided to give more power to the army. The new amendment in the Armed Forces Act was proposed in the parliament by the conservative party GERB and was later supported by all other parties (the Reformist … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit army, border, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Ministry of Interior, Nikola Kazakov, Poland, Schengen, Slovakia, State agency for refugees, Viktor Orban, Visegrad Group | Schreib einen Kommentar

Breaking News: Two women froze to death in Bulgaria’s borderland

Publiziert am 7. Februar 2016 von mf

The private television channel bTV reported about two refugee women who have died, in the near of Malko Tarnovo at Strandzha mountain massif on Saturday. Since days the region, where the group was found, saw freezing temperatures. Apparently, the women were part of a bigger group, at … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit asylum seekers, border, Borderpolice, death, fence, Ministry of Interior, Push-Back, Syrian Refugees | Schreib einen Kommentar

Changes in Bulgaria’s Detention and Deportation System

Publiziert am 20. Januar 2016 von mf

On the 1st of January 2016, new amendments of the Law on the Asylum and Refugees (LAR) came into force. Basically, this change allows the State Agency for Refugees (SAR) “to place asylum seekers in closed centers“, impose curfews for existing open … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit border, Burgas, Center for Legal Aid - Voice in Bulgaria, Deportation, Detention, Evros, Foundation for Access to Rights (FAR), Haskovo, Maritsa, Ministry of Interior, Push-Back, Radostina Pavlova, Rumyana Bachvarova, Valeria Ilareva, Yambol | Schreib einen Kommentar

“Good old Europe“ is checking the borders of Bulgaria

Publiziert am 12. Dezember 2015 von mf

As many European countries have already considered to build walls at their borders, two politicians of Great Britain and Germany took recently a look at the European border regime, that is partly managed by Europeans pourest country. Lately, the flow of migrants that are entering Bulgaria … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit border, Borderpolice, Boyko Borisov, David Cameron, Elhovo, Horst Seehofer | Kommentare deaktiviert

Silent crossing through Bulgaria ends up in registration process in Serbia

Publiziert am 8. November 2015 von mf

Most of the refugees, crossing via Bulgaria, arrive in Dimitrovgrad, a little town, that is 4 km from the Serbian-Bulgarian Border and 60m away from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. They have to register at a camp, that is managed by the Serbian border police. Registered … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit Asylum procedure, BHC, border, Borderpolice, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Dimitrovgrad, Ovcha Kupel, Serbia, Sofia | Kommentare deaktiviert