News from the Borders 09.02.2024

Erik Marquardt on 9. February 2024

Photo: Erik Marquardt

By a narrow majority, we have A resolution which clearly criticizes the systematic human rights violations by pushbacks, the restriction of press freedom and the criminalization of humanitarian aid in Greece. The right-wing and the conservatives had tried to prevent the resolution. To my homepage contribution and of my speech.

The ECJ has ruledthat Syrian conscientious objectors can apply for asylum. This shows that the Bamf has wrongly denied thousands of Syrian conscientious objectors in Germany a follow-up application for asylum. To the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

A survivor of the deadly pushbacks of people seeking protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border in Melilla filed a complaint with the UN Committee against Torture last week. Here is the ECCHR press release.

On Tuesday, the Council and Parliament agreed on the followingthat border controls within the EU may be permitted for up to three years in future. A global pandemic, terrorism or irregular migration, for example, would justify this. Der Spiegel reports.

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