Schlagwort-Archive: Push-Back

Breaking News: Man dies after push-back from Bulgaria

Publiziert am 30. Juli 2016 von mf

Several Turkish speaking news sites (citing an article of a journalist from the Anadolou Agency) were reporting about a new victim of the European Border Regime. The 28 year old Iranian Reza Hassani was missing for about 18 days. He was … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit border, death, Greece, Ministry of Interior, Non-Refoulement, Push-Back, Refoulement, Turkey | Schreib einen Kommentar

Bulgaria responds with push-backs to the increasing amount of asylum-seekers

Publiziert am 6. Juni 2016 von mf

In the last days there were reports appearing concerning several groups of people who managed to pass from Greece to Bulgaria. It was furthermore reported by the news agency Novinite that 53 migrants were quickly sent back by the Bulgarian authorities … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Allgemein | Verschlagwortet mit asylum seekers, Belgrade, border, Busmantsi, fence, Greece, Kulata, Mariya Ivancheva, Ministry of Interior, Push-Back, Refoulement, Turkey | 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

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

The Bulgarian EU border: to anticipate between death and life

Publiziert am 26. März 2015 von mf

As any other peripheral EU border, the Bulgarian one is like a swing that oscillates between life and death. Annually, thousands are trying to cross it in order to find a better life but some, instead, find a fatal end. … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit border, death, Dublin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Greece, Italy, Push-Back | Kommentare deaktiviert

Still no good life for refugees in Bulgaria

Publiziert am 24. März 2015 von mf

The situation for refugees in Bulgaria still exhibits extreme social vulnerability. As the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) and the European Council on Refugees (ECRE) pointed out in a report from January 2015 the push-backs, the lack of integration and discrimination against asylumseekers … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit BHC, Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, ECRE, European Council on Refugees, Push-Back | Kommentare deaktiviert

Report now available in German translation

Publiziert am 22. Dezember 2014 von mf

We are glad to inform you, that our new report is available in German language under the heading „Gefangen in Europas Morast: Die Situation von Asylsuchenden und Flüchtlingen in Bulgarien“ is published. You can download the German Version here. Update: See as well the Vice News episode … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit Asylum procedure, border, Camps, Exclusion, Far-Right, humanitarian status, Non-Refoulement, Push-Back, Refoulement, SAR, State agency for refugees, status-holder, Street Violence, vulnerable, Xenophobia | Kommentare deaktiviert

New hunger strike, push-backs and death in the border region

Publiziert am 21. September 2014 von mf

According to information received from asylum seekers, there has been a hunger strike in the detention facility in Lyubimets for the last few days. Nearly 100 people, including women and children, have taken part in the protest action. The reasons … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized | Verschlagwortet mit border, Borderpolice, death, families, Human Rights Watch, Hunger Strike, Lyubimets, Malko Tarnovo, Non-Refoulement, poverty, protest, Push-Back, Refoulement, resistance, Syrian Refugees, Turkey | 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