Asylum seekers and refugees in Germany
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Police break sanctuary
The police in Peine (Lower Saxony) have infringed church sanctuary by forcing their way into St Jacobi to arrest the Vietnamese Van family, asylum seekers who have lived in Germany for thirteen years.
12 December 2004 (49 words)
Stormy Hesse debate about right-winger Irmer
The Landtag deputy of Hesse, CDU member Irmer, who has made such extreme remarks about asylum seekers, homosexuals, Muslims, Turkey's accession etc that he has provoked debates in the parliament, has not been denounced by the CDU.
28 November 2004 (174 words)
Uekermünde (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) Neo-Nazis organise against hostel
Under the guise of a citizens' initiative called 'Living more pleasantly and safely', right-wingers are inciting racism against the building of a refugee hostel.
10 July 2004 (169 words)
Arnstadt: victims treated as aggressors
Three African asylum seekers, who were attacked on 21 October 2000 by Germans in Arnstadt, now face charges of grievous bodily harm.
31 May 2004 (101 words)
Roma face prejudice and discrimination
The UN Human Rights Committee has expressed concern about the continuing levels of prejudice and discrimination towards Roma, and especially the fact that they are disproportionately affected by deportations and returns to their country of origin.
28 April 2004 (115 words)
Aamir Ageeb: Trial of border guards
After five years, three border guards went on trial in Frankfurt on 2 February accused of the involuntary manslaughter of Aamir Ageeb.
26 March 2004 (234 words)
Report on lethal consequence of refugee policy
The Anti-racist Initiative in Berlin has published a report on the lethal consequence of Germany's refugee policy from 1993-2003, citing a number of horrific cases.
18 February 2004 (97 words)
Another popular campaign against asylum seekers
Residents in Grimmen (North Rhine-Westphalia) say that if a plan goes ahead to house asylum seekers in a former old people's home, then they will move out of the area.
29 July 2003 (91 words)
Complaints about police treatment of refugee communities
Refugee medical centre raided by police faces court action
26 February 2003 (320 words)
Sikh deported from Germany faces death penalty
Davinder Pal Singh Bhuller, who was deported to India after seeking asylum in Germany in 1995, has had his appeal against the death penalty rejected by the Supreme Court in Delhi and is now facing imminent execution.
23 January 2003 (438 words)
Intimidation claims at refugee centre in Freiburg
The residents of a refugee hostel in Freiburg im Breisgau have repeatedly protested at conditions at the camp.
16 December 2002 (106 words)
Stateless Lebanese under threat of deportation
A campaign has been formed in solidarity with an estimated 440 stateless Lebanese Kurds who have been served with deportation orders by the city of Bremen.
16 December 2002 (53 words)
Federal framework of 'country leaving centres' authorised
The new immigration law allows for Ausreisezentren ('country leaving centres') to be set up to house those whose asylum applications have been rejected but who cannot be deported, because their nationality is unknown.
16 December 2002 (93 words)
Togolese taken into pre-deportation detention loses sight
Amnesty International has written to the minister of the interior of North Rhine-Westphalia citing concerns about a 59-year-old Togolese asylum seeker, Doviodo Adekou, who was arrested at the Office for Foreigners Affairs in Mettmann and taken into pre-deportation detention on 1 October 2001.
1 November 2002 (90 words)
Racist mob lays siege to hostel in Algermissen
For two consecutive days, a racist mob laid siege to a refugee hostel in Algermissen. The attacks only stopped when Tamil refugees were evacuated to accommodation outside the town.
6 September 2002 (488 words)
Law of Obligatory Residence linked to national security
The authorities are taking an even more authoritarian approach in administrating the Law of Obligatory Residence.
1 August 2002 (190 words)
Hamburg: Schill wants to intern sick immigrants
All the political parties on Hamburg city council have united to condemn a Schill proposal to compel immigrants to have a compulsory medical and to intern sick foreigners.
30 July 2002 (80 words)
New immigration law - an attack on basic asylum rights
The new immigration law which comes into effect in January 2003, will, by withdrawing short-term residence permits, lead to several hundred thousand people being cast into a life of illegality.
25 July 2002 (162 words)
Ludwigshafen: refugees live in a camp of prefab huts
In Wollstrasse, a small street in Ludwigshafen, seventy-seven refugees live in prefab huts, barely ten metres square, housing two or three people.
28 June 2002 (117 words)
Roma from Yugoslavia protest deportation threat
On 6 June, the German conference of interior ministers issued the 'Bremenhaven decision' under which 60000 Roma from the former-Yugoslavia, with temporary permission to stay, will be asked to return voluntarily or face forced deportations by the end of the year.
19 June 2002 (131 words)
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