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• arrested in 2010, according to Human Rights Watch. In October 2012, members of the Afar diaspora condemned plans by the authorities in Yemen to deport 300 Afar asylum seekers back to Eritrea, claiming they would be persecuted upon return. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) individuals face legal and social discrimination due to the criminalization of homosexual conduct.

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• They fled a despotic regime, and spend quiet life in Switzerland but continued to be hounded by fear. Since 2007, Eritrean refugees occupy the top list of asylum seekers in Switzerland. In 2011 alone, 3,356 Eritreans arrived in Switzerland seeking asylum. Behind their quiet life in peaceful Switzerland lies a harsh reality: even in Switzerland, they are under pressure, blackmail and other forms of

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• ecent years searching for jobs. Elisheva Milikovsky, who has volunteered to work with the Sudanese refugees, told Haaretz recently that there are some 2,600 asylum seekers residing in the Tel Aviv area, of which hundreds live in shelters, and some 6,000 nationwide. The number shot up last summer, apparently as word spread of job opportunities in Israel and a more lenient policy toward refuge

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• Home arrow English arrow News arrow Asylum seeker used a fake identity card TEEN HAD BEEN PERSECUTED IN WEST AFRICA

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• on to their plight, some still in refugee camps and unable to return safely to their former homes. But there is now an increasing flow of new post-independence asylum–seekers from Eritrea to various countries in the world. The growing Eritrean diaspora, few of whom are returning home, has been drawn into the current crisis of democracy and human rights. Formerly very supportive of the government a

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• UNHCR ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION NEEDS OF ASYLUM-SEEKERS FROM ERITREA United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) April 2009 NOTE UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines are issued by the Office to assist decision-makers, including UNHCR staff, Governments and private practitioners, in assessing the int

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• According to an AI briefing of April 2005, Libya has failed to recognize the ‘presence of refugees and asylum seekers’ in its country, nor does it allow the UNHCR to ‘operate its proper protection mandate.’ By the end of 2003, there were 12 000 refugees in Libya, as estimated by the UNHCR.

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• of conscience detained for political reasons also include former EPLF veterans and members of the armed forces; civil servants and professionals; and some 300 asylum-seekers fleeing military conscription who were forcibly returned by Malta in 2002 and by Libya in 2003 and are reportedly still detained.

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• is and treatment, are al lowed to travel via Asmara Airport and encouraged to acquire permanent residen ce permits in the West, posing as paperless political asylum seekers. When granted refugee status they travel frequently to Eritrea and remain ardent supporters of the regime from whom they have sought ‘asylum’. Likewise, many of the perpetuators of human rights violations in Eritrea have

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• on to their plight, some still in refugee camps and unable to return safely to their former homes. But there is now an increasing flow of new post-independence asylum–seekers from Eritrea to various countries in the world. The growing Eritrean diaspora, few of whom are returning home, has been drawn into the current crisis of democracy and human rights. Formerly very supportive of the government a

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• Meanwhile, the asylum-seekers continue to come over the Egyptian border into Israel. To use Ehud Barak’s phrase from the bad old days of the Intifada, Israel proper (not counting the occupied territories) is a “villa in the jungle” — a democratic, relatively tolerant, prosperous country in the middle of the impoverished, repressive, sprawling Third World. To quote Netanyahu from late November, it

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• URGENT ACTION ERITREANS IN EGYPT at RISK of FORCIBLE RETURN A group of 118 male asylum-seekers face imminent forcible return from Egypt to Eritrea, where they would be at grave risk of torture and arbitrary detention. After being arrested and detained in and around the city of Aswan, southern Egypt, 118 male Eritrean asylum-seekers have been recently transferred to a compound in Shallal, a town

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• the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued guidelines to all governments in 2004, which are still in force, opposing the return of rejected Eritrean asylum-seekers on the grounds of the Eritrean authorities' record of serious human rights violations.

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• Badr also denied allegations that Egypt is endangering refugees and asylum seekers by sending them back to their countries without a formal review of their case for political asylum. But a 2008 report by Human Rights Watch said most of those killed near the border by Egyptian security forces were African migrants and refugees with no connection to arms trafficking.

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• The number of migrants arriving in northern Greece from Turkey has risen dramatically in 2010. They include asylum seekers, unaccompanied children, single women, and families with young children. Human Rights Watch conducted research in the northern region of Greece during the first week of December and witnessed conditions so overcrowded that detainees cannot even lie down to sleep. Women and chi

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• or resettlement. The refugees have been in detention in Libyan prisons. In many EU nations, Eritreans account for the highest, or one of the highest, number of asylum seekers. Last Updated ( Oct 21, 2008 ) Source awate.com

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• itrea has become a major refugee producing country. He adds that between 2001 and 2007, 9,995 sought asylum in the UK and in Sweden, in 2006 and 2007, Eritrean asylum seekers were the fourth largest among fifty nationalities.

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• here are approximately 130,000 Eritrean refugees in eastern Sudan, with about 120 asylum seekers arriving each week, according to Annette Rehrl, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Sudan.

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• for Refugees (UNHCR) both released extensive reports on the human rights situation in Eritrea recently, requesting from other countries not to deport Eritrean asylum seekers fleeing military service. Human Rights Watch writes: "Enforced indefinite national service is an increasingly important element of Eritrea’s human rights crisis. Conscripts undergo military training, in itself not illegal. Ho

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• Prisoners of conscience included draft evaders and military deserters. Some prisoners of conscience were also failed asylum-seekers forcibly returned to Eritrea.

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• recognition as refugees in Israel Ruth Eglash , THE JERUSALEM POST / December 16, 2008 Wearing white masks to conceal their identities, more than 500 Eritrean asylum seekers took to the streets of Tel Aviv Tuesday to protest what they describe as the Israeli government’s refusal to recognize them as refugees and grant them certain rights under the United Nation’s convention on the status of refug

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• policy regarding refugee status and rights, and there is no official authority responsible for dealing with them, making the status and future of refugees and asylum seekers unclear. Eritrean refugees currently have an unofficial temporary protected and not a refugee status. There is no uniform procedure in granting status, and visas are issued in an arbitrary manner. With no official refu

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• consumed over 20,000 people and millions of dollars worth of it’s meager resources. These youngsters are part of an increasing flow of new post independence asylum seekers from Eritrea to various countries in the world. They are part of those fleeing their country in growing numbers from a government that has an appalling human rights record and violation of human rights on a massive scale.

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• ery basic human needs for livelihood was extremely depressing and damaging to the human person, both physically and mentally.18 You expect decent treatment as asylum seekers but were treated as sub-humans and as criminals. You feel your human worth taken from you. If you are one of the unlucky Eritreans you will be deported to Eritrea though y ou pleaded that you be deported not directly to E

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• In his “Critique of the Human Rights Commission [sic] on Eritrea,” Professor Asmerom Legesse makes the following points: (a) The Commission relied heavily on asylum-seekers who are incentivized to lie so they can get asylum. The Commission should also have interviewed asylees (those who have already received asylum) as those have less incentive to lie; (b) The Special Rapporteur saw her task as

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• Holot is the final stop in Israel’s immigration agenda. Once there, trapped and in limbo, the asylum seekers are unlawfully offered a repatriation fee to encourage them into accepting so-called “voluntary departure packages” and relocate to third-party African countries.

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• In a move local human rights activists say is unprecedented, Egypt deported at least 1,200 asylum seekers in June. Against both domestic and international law and in spite of a warning by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that they would likely be arrested and even tortured upon their return, the government allegedly prevented thousands of Eritreans from claiming asylum bef

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• Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers repatriated from other countries during the year reportedly disappeared. In January the government of Egypt repatriated several hundred Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers, all of whom were returned to their families, according to the government. Nevertheless, there were numerous reports from family members of missing individuals, mostly young men and women wh

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• In one day, based on facts provided by the Sudanese Refugee Commission, the official number of asylum seekers is 70-80 excluding those who bypass registration. A more realistic figure would be more than double that, between 150 -200 per day. In other words, up to 200 Eritreans risk imprisonment, torture and death every single day, and we are only looking at one border. We can only guess how many m

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• headlines in neighbouring countries as well as in southern Europe and even here in the UK. Home office figures indicate a sharp rise in the number of Eritrean asylum seekers, consistently placing Eritrea, in the top refugee producing countries only being surpassed by countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The magnitude of the problems leading to the thousands of young people fleeing the co

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• of conscience detained for political reasons also include former EPLF veterans and members of the armed forces; civil servants and professionals; and some 300 asylum-seekers fleeing military conscription who were forcibly returned by Malta in 2002 and by Libya in 2003 and are reportedly still detained. Some prisoners of conscience of particular concern to Amnesty International are the following:

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• nly defended the act of the desperate Eritreans. The hijacking last month had revealed "the seriousness of the situation, and the vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers in Libya," Mr Redmond said.

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• ica. Until then, Eritreans who illegally escaped the country crossed Sudan and entered Egypt, Tunisia or Libya to reach Mediterranean-based smugglers who ferry asylum-seekers to Europe. But with these traditional routes cut off by the region's turmoil, what was once a relatively safe and cheap passage is now neither. Instead, awaiting the refugees in transit, say diplomats familiar with the reg

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• and 12 months development service) but in practice is indefinite. There is no right to conscientious objection. This has become the main cause of the flight of asylum-seekers. Over 200 Eritreans - mainly army deserters - who were forcibly returned by Malta in late 2002 have not been seen since; others are currently detained in Malta and Libya and at risk of deportation. Others have had asylum ap

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• equested his help in picking up ransom from family members of people they had kidnapped. Al-Qarnawi was allegedly told to call the family and friends of the asylum seekers kidnapped in the Sinai and receive the ransom payment, according to the indictment, after which he handed the money over to the kidnappers. The indictment states al-Qarnawi accepted five payments monthly between June 2011

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• and reformation’, then a. Why did they leave Asmara for Europe and America from the very beginning? b. Why did they prefer to be political refugees or asylum seekers in Europe or America? c. Why did / do GMH, Dr. Assefaw Tekeste and their alike not go back to Eritrea and show their political muscles either against PIA or in support of PIA in an open way? d. What drives them to come

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• „foreign‟. Muslims belonging to new, unrecognised groups are likewise targeted, as are followers of the Bahai faith. “Others who are jailed include, failed asylum seekers, businessmen and merchants suspected of hoarding goods or otherwise engaging in black market activities, journalists who have been critical or are suspected of being potential critics and a range of political dissidents, r

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• n through the Sinai to Israel, and to promote U.S.-Israeli dialogue and cooperation on migration issues. Israel is now host to over 35,000 African migrants and asylum seekers, a large majority of whom are from Eritrea and Sudan. I met with UNHCR and several NGOs, including Physicians for Human Rights and Hotline for Migrant Workers, to learn more about their work to assist African asylum seekers.

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• Reliable source indicate Libya’s forced arrangements are reportedly underway to return around 105 Eritrean asylum seekers to Asmara anytime soon, These Eritreans are held in a place called Shurma prison camp, which is located 100Km away from Tripoli. The detained Eritreans are known also to be registered with the Red-Cross. The Prison authorities have taken the detainees’ mobile phones away and

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• of conscience detained for political reasons also include former EPLF veterans and members of the armed forces; civil servants and professionals; and some 300 asylum-seekers fleeing military conscription who were forcibly returned by Malta in 2002 and by Libya in 2003 and are reportedly still detained. Some prisoners of conscience of particular concern to Amnesty International are the following

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• the diaspora.” [28] 2.03 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum Seekers from Eritrea report, published in April 2009, added: “The country has practically no exports, while the cost of imports account for roughly 40 percent of the GDP. The cost of living, particularly in urban a

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• Egypt started a crackdown in June with deportations of hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers, the largest in decades. Egyptian police shot dead at least 28 African migrants at the border with Israel in 2008.

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• Amnesty International has put the spotlight on Eritrean asylum-seekers who are kidnapped from Sudanese refugee camps by the local Rashaida tribe, sold to Bedouin criminals in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and severely abused while they are held for ransom.

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• KHARTOUM — Sudan has condemned more than 300 Eritreans asylum seekers to "certain detention and abuse" by deporting them to one of the "most brutal" countries in the world, a rights group said on Tuesday.

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• l to confess for crimes he didn?t commit by arguing his application for asylum has been rejected by the Department of Home Affairs. However, Samuel has a legal asylum seeker permit that expires in March 2004. Likewise, it should be noticed that the Regime?s ambassador has nullified the student?s passport and visa while he was in detention in August 2003. Of course the presumption behind this entir

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• campaign.’ However, the Egyptian government has failed to mention that the attack took place only a few kilometers from underground compounds where African asylum-seekers are being held hostage. Over a thousand testimonies from Sinai survivors tell of systematic rape, burning, electrocution, hanging by the hands, feet and neck, starvation, deprivation of water and other extreme torture mechani

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• ary Training Camp, conscription, ethnic and religious persecution. source. The UNHCR estimates in January 2012, there were 251,954 Eritrean refugees and 14,172 asylum seekers spread across the Horn of Africa. [sourcee letter] During the first ten months of 2014, the number of asylum-seekers in Europe from Eritrea has tripled. In 2014, nearly 37,000 Eritreans have sought refuge in Europe, compared

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• ot on who they are or what they have accomplished but on what they are trying to escape and how. They appear in the press as draft evaders, illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and worse. In coverage of the homeland, they are the victims of road-blocks, round-ups and arbitrary house searches as the government tries to capture them for open-ended “national service.” To be caught is to face indefinite

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• UNHCR’s official Guidelines to States on the protection needs of Eritrean asylum seekers state that “[i]ndividuals of draft age who left Eritrea illegally may be perceived as draft evaders upon return, irrespective of whether they have completed active national service or have been demobilized,” and that “[t]he punishment for desertion or evasion is so severe and disproportionate such as to amount

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• [External image reference]90% of Eritrean asylum-seekers are men, many of whom fled indefinite compulsory military duty.

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• First they came for work, then they were arrested, reportedly abused and thrown in jail. Now, Ethiopian and Eritrean asylum seekers are living on the streets of Yemen, with nowhere to go and little assistance.

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• that these people have been at sea in the Mediterranean for so many days without being rescued. Boldrini said that Eritreans who arrive in Italy via sea are asylum-seekers, people who are in danger and are seeking protection.

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• The majority of these asylum-seekers have lived in Sudan for years, seeking sanctuary from recurring conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. But some 22,000 have still crossed since late 2003, long after the two countries signed a peace treaty in 2000 ending hostilities and an estimated 98,000 Eritreans returned home under a UNHCR voluntary repatriation programme.

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• August. The Kenyan government justified its refusal to grant asylum to the expellees on the grounds that Kenya has no common borders with Eritrea although the asylum seekers were fleeing Ethiopia, a neighboring country, and not recently independent Eritrea. Eventually, the Eritrean embassy in Kenya and the International Organization of Migration financed and organized an airlift to Eritrea for

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• [External image reference]Her name is sara Paulos kidane. She is now four and half years old. She was the only child to her father. She is now an asylum seeker under the care of her mother, Tsehayalem Araya Tesfu in Kampala (Uganda).

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• J.​ Whereas the EU has repeatedly invited Egypt to develop and improve the quality of the assistance an protection offered to asylum seekers and refugees residing or transiting on their territory;

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• sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. (New York) - Libyan authorities are giving Eritrean officials access to Eritrean migrants, including many asylum seekers who are being detained in Libya, violating their right to seek asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. Â This development also suggests that the asylum seekers may be in danger of being forcibly returned to Eritrea.

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• Innocent Eritrean asylum seekers are making hunger strike in Panama city immigration detention center. They are considered as criminals and exposed to inhuman, degrading treatment without a known crime and the fear of deportation back to Eritrea. They are living in constant fear of being deported.They are just waiting and expecting the worst. Those who have been deported in the past have been subj

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• ematically meted out to extort thousands of dollars from family members, friends or anyone who cannot bear to hear their cries. Often no money arrives. Many asylum seekers report fatalities, often having witnessed such deaths up close. Many who are lucky enough to be ransomed arrive with unspeakable emotional trauma from the camps, not to mention the emotional burdens that uprooted them from

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• © Yonathan Weitzman/BluePress EGYPT DEADLY JOURNEYS THROUGH THE DESERT Sub-Saharan African refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Egypt are being killed, imprisoned and forcibly returned to countries where they are at risk of serious human rights violations. Twenty-five people have been shot and killed trying to cross the Egyptian border into Israel since mid-2007 and more than 1,300 civilians h

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• airline official is arbitrarily trying to deport four Eritrean refugees who were stranded in the airport for a month. This is the first time Yemen has deported asylum seekers against their will. EveryOne Group, Eritrean Concern, ICER and other Human Rights organizations are asking the UNHCR to condemn the action as strongly as possible and ask the Yemeni Government to stop the unjust deportation o

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• re for Human Rights 04/08/2009mhtml:file://D:\newham\Assenna.mht!http://asena.samai.co.uk/index.php?option=co... organizers of their escape routes. Many of the asylum seekers, among them women died d Sahara desert, while others drowned in rivers, seas and ocean waters. Still others were sho Egyptian –Israeli borders. Some women who escape from Eritrea to the Sudan are held as persons when their r

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• s and lack sufficient resources to provide full-blown treatment. According to Elisheva Milikowski, one of the founders of the Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel, an organization that provides humanitarian and psychosocial assistance, "We try to support and escort refugees coping with trauma, with the difficulty of adapting to the realities in Israel, as well as to the hopel

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• BBC – Janne Macauly, Tuesday 9/03/10 “A woman jumped out of a flat window as the pressure of being an Asylum Seeker becomes too much for her, Lidia Tewelde is 22 from Eritrea. The country she fled because of fear of religious persecution.

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• eir country of origin illegally and as such they have abdicated their right to protection from abuse (Estefanos 2011b). It is widely reported that refugees and asylum seekers who have recently repatriated to Eritrea by third countries have been ill-treated by the Eritrean government upon return to Eritrea, because for the simple fact of fleeing the country and crossing the national boarders ‘illeg

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• decide to flee the country becomes less challenging. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported 474, 296 Eritreans globally registered as refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2015, which represents around 12 percent of Eritrea’s estimated population of 3.6 million.

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• t are being told that they will be sent back to Eritrea where they will imminently face torture and risks to their lives, as happened to many forcedly returned asylum seekers before them.

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• ብዘይካ’ዚ ጸብጻብ ምኪኤል ኣፍዑት ዘጠቓልሎ ኣገዳሲ ዕማም፡ ናይቶም ንስርዓት ህግደፍ ጸሊኦም ወይ ተቓዊሞም ብዝተፈላለየ ኣገባብን መኣዝንን፡ ማለት ብመክሲኮ ወይ ብኤውሮጳ ናብ ኦክላንድ፡ በይ-ኤርያ ዝኣትዉ ኤርትራውያን ሓተቲ ዑቕባ (Asylum Seekers) ፡ ኣወጻጽኣኦም ካብ ኤርትራ፡ መንነቶምን ኩነታት ቤተሰቦም፡ ህሉው ኣድራሽኦምን ርክባቶምን ብዝርዝር ኣጽኒዑ፡ ናብ ቤትጽሕፈት ምክትታል ኣብ ወጻኢ ዝነብሩ ኤርትራውያን፡ ናብ ኣስመራ ምትሕልላፍ እዩ።

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• The risk of being kidnapped is highest for Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers as they enter Eastern Sudan. Based on numerous reports and individual interviews, the main actors responsible for smuggling and human trafficking from Eastern Sudan into Egypt are local tribesmen in Eastern Sudan and in the Sinai, as well as some criminal gangs. Some asylum seekers are kidnapped at the border between E

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• hem. A sense of hope shines from their desert sun-burned face, and their smile shows they haven’t given up!! The situation back in Tunisia remains as it is. Asylum seekers are yet waiting their RSD interviews; all the refugees are waiting their resettlement. But when will this happen? For how long will the developed world close its eye and deafen its ear? As Eritreans and after being delivered

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• d up the Home Office’s chart of top asylum-seeking nationalities. A total of 2,195 Eritreans applied for asylum in Britain last year, a number exceeded only by asylum-seekers from Afghanistan and Iran. The vast majority who come to Britain stay in London, where they have formed close-knit communities, centred around their places of worship. The four million-strong population of Eritrea is split al

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• The Yemeni authorities allow UNHCR to visit detention centres around the country to screen potential asylum-seekers and ensure that they receive protection assistance.

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• Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is an organisation which runs an Open Clinic for status-less persons in Israel. 87 percent of its patients are African asylum seekers with a large majority of them from Eritrea and Ethiopia. Its clinic is often the first place many refugees go to seek treatment from injuries and illness caused by trauma experienced in the Sinai desert. Because of its unique posit

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• nts of the applicants for asylum was taken to be an indication that their application was not credible in total.29 Furthermore, in the airport proceedings, the asylum seekers are practically imprisoned, and have barely any possibility of contacting people outside.

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• Sweden is to send a 23-year-old asylum seeker back to Eritrea despite warnings from the UN and Amnesty International that nobody should be forced to return there.

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• She understands how they may have felt, because last year she jumped out of a flat window as the pressure of being an asylum seeker became too much for her.

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• Activists say the returns appeared to be the largest mass deportations of asylum seekers from Egypt in decades.

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• I want to revisit here is the exodus of young people from Eritrea. It is shame that, despite our population size, we make up the second highest percentage of asylum seekers in the world at the moment. I do not believe that the Eritrean government is willing to address the root cause to stop it any time soon as they have already blamed other parties for promoting it. This issue will continue[Extern

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• Many human rights activists and Eritreans among the civic societies in Europe have extended a helping hand in raising awareness about the plight of Eritrean asylum seekers in Malta. As told by the interviewee below, the ELF-RC was in the forefront of raising the required awareness among human rights organizations starting in the spring of 2002 when the Malta crisis was in its making. Only to remin

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• Thousands of the Eritrean refugees live in other countries, such as Yemen where 1500 refugees live in Khokha camp. There are big numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe, North America, South Africa and other countries.

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• ine Action Committee, continued demining activities in the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) between Eritrea and Ethiopia. b. Disappearance Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers who were repatriated from other countries during the year reportedly disappeared. In June the government of Egypt repatriated several hundred Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers, all of whom were returned to their families,

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• rogators, Yosief Berhane and Fikre.210 • Adi Abeto army prison is just outside Asmara. A relatively large camp, it is reportedly used for conscripts, returned asylum seekers, and members of minority religions (AI 2004: 20). • Wi’a military detention centre is located some 32 kilometres south of the Red Sea port of Massawa, at one of the hottest places on Earth (it was used during the Italian col

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• Egypt started a crackdown in June with deportations of hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers, the largest in decades. Egyptian police shot dead at least 28 African migrants at the border with Israel in 2008.

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• id a global criminal network of smugglers and kidnappers is "taking profit of the desperate situation of many Eritreans." Shagarab camp receives about 2,000 asylum-seekers monthly, largely from neighbouring Eritrea where many have fled compulsory military service. The UN estimates that 80 per cent of the new arrivals leave the camp within two months for Khartoum, Egypt, Israel or further afi

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• d by those who are returned, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has advised against all deportations to Eritrea, including of rejected asylum seekers. All refoulement of Eritrean refugees should end. Eritrea’s tense relations with Ethiopia continue to be the dominant factor in Eritrean foreign policy and an important element in domestic dynamics. Although both governm

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• | New York, January | – Egypt should immediately halt deportations of Eritrean asylum seekers to their home country, where they face detention and the risk of torture, Human Rights Watch said today.

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• en a rise in trafficking of refugees and that they are vulnerable to, "kidnapping, extortion and physical, particularly sexual, violence. For many refugees and asylum-seekers, chiefly those residing in Khartoum, the absence of documentation creates a constant risk of arrest, deportation and refoulement(forced return)."

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• Most of the contemporary asylum seekers are youth from the age of 18-40, many of them University or College graduates, students of Warsay Ykealo School Sawa and national service conscripts. It is also worth mentioning that these days the number of women and children coming to the Sudan is increasing by the day.

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• Eritrea has brokered deals with some neighboring countries to repatriate fleeing citizens, rights groups say. In June, Egypt deported up to 1,000 Eritrean asylum seekers, despite activists’ concerns they might face torture at home.

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• ut of the Sinai.We call on the Egyptian Authority and the UNHCR, IOM, HRW, AMNSTY to work to save these lives and provide them with international protection as asylum seekers.

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• Most of the hostages are Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers who paid $3,000 each to the gangs to get them to the Israeli border. Instead, they are subjected to daily torture as their captors phone their relatives at home and abroad demanding huge sums to spare their lives.

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• he Catholic priest, Father Mussie, is the founder-manager of Agenzia Habeshia which has been engaged in advocacy on behalf of victimized Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum seekers in the Middle East and North Africa.

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• ing the protection of migrants and refugees. The EU has repeatedly invited Egypt to develop and improve the quality of the assistance and protection offered to asylum‑seekers and refugees residing or transiting on their territory. The EU has also pressed the Egyptian authorities to ensure that the principle of non-refoulement is observed for all migrants in need of international protection while U

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• Even if they do manage to escape, their nightmare is not over. In recent years Malta, Libya, Sudan, Egypt and even Britain have returned asylum- seekers to Eritrea, where they are viewed as traitors to the nation-building cause and treated as such. They face almost certain incarceration, torture and possibly death. The Human Rights Watch report calls for an absolute prohibition on all forcible ret

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• Press release by three human rights and refugee advocate groups (Jerusalem, October 28, 2012) – The Israeli military has since June 2012 prevented dozens of asylum seekers, most of them Eritreans, from crossing Israel’s newly constructed fence on its border with Egypt, Human Rights Watch, the Hotline for Migrant Workers, and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel said today. Israel has also unlaw

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• One of the detained 50 or so Eritreans has confirmed in a call to his sister in Europe that the missing boat was rescued by Libyan authorities and that the asylum seekers (called “illegal immigrants” in the press) are held in prison which is kept secret from representatives of the UNHCR and other humanitarian and human rights agencies who have been keenly following the fate of Eritrea’s “boat peop

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• ediate disembarkation of the 26 migrants and on the Member States of the European Union to show solidarity and to assist Malta in the reception of migrants and asylum seekers.

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• Since the start of the influx in February 2011, many Choucha residents originating from Asia and West Africa have been able to go home. But thousands of asylum-seekers and refugees like Filmon do not have the option of returning as it would put their lives in danger.

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• The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recommended that host governments refrain from forcibly returning even rejected asylum seekers to Eritrea because of the risk that returned Eritreans will be subjected to detention and torture.

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• ill have their cases reviewed by UNHCR. However, only full protection of international human rights standards in the country will bring an end to the flight of asylum-seekers and the free and safe return of all who had fled in the past decades or more recently.

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• eement32. In June 2012, Israel announced it would begin to implement an anti- infiltration law, amending its 1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law to define all asylum seekers for crossing into Israel unannounced as “infiltrators”. Since 2006, tens of thousands of migrants have crossed the border from Egypt into Israel with the US State Department estimating two-thirds as Eritrean. They enter an

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• authorities to detain border-crossers for up to three years without a trial. The numbers have dropped significantly since. Twenty to 30 percent of Eritrean asylum seekers who entered Israel before June were tortured in Sinai, according to Shahar Shoham, the director of the migrants and status-less persons department at Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, citing data from her organization (whic

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• According to the information, the human traffickers are holding 70 victims altogether, and they are demanding 5 thousand US dollars from each and every of the asylum seekers who have been trapped on their way to safety in Israel and elsewhere.

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• "Scores of Eritrean asylum seekers now cross into Sudan every week, joining about 130 000 of their compatriots living in 12 refugee camps as well as urban and rural areas," the UN's refugee agency said in statement issued in late August. "In 2000 we started voluntary repatriation, in which 98 000 Eritreans returned home," said Annette Rehrl, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

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• On 27 September Amnesty International wrote to the Maltese Home Affairs and Environment Minister, Dr Tonio Borg, expressing concern that recently arrived asylum seekers from Eritrea and other countries could be at risk of serious human rights violations if they were returned to their countries of origin and their claims for protection were not adequately examined. The organization called on the go

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• d incommunicado indefinitely without charge, trial or any other legal process. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recommended that even rejected asylum-seekers from Eritrea should not be returned, advice which seems to have been generally observed internationally.

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• Currently there are more than 2000 Protestant Christians in prison. Hundreds of asylum seekers who were deported by the Malta and the Libyan governments in 2002 and 2004, are in prison. Thousands of youths have been arrested on suspicion of evading military conscription and are still detained in secret detention places, at Galeloa hard labour prison camps, Wie detention centre, Nakura and elsewher

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• lleged to have opposed the government, remained in detention incommunicado and without charge or trial. The whereabouts of many of them were not known. Several asylum-seekers forcibly returned from Malta in 2002 and Libya in 2003 were still detained.

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• . One of the most frequently-named prisons holding recently-arrested political prisoners is Adi Abeto prison near Asmara. This is used for conscripts, returned asylum seekers, and members of minority churches.

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• He said many asylum seekers often pretended to be Eritrean because "Western countries and MI5" gave priority to Eritreans to encourage them to flee.

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• the International Organization for Migration from Libya to Sallum in north-eastern Egypt. Sallum is currently hosting several hundred migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers who fled the war in Libya. Although there are other Eritreans of his age in the camp, he prefers to keep to himself in a little tent that he has proudly made with a UNHCR plastic sheet. Salomon is still haunted by memories

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• ans as refugees. Similarly, Israel, Switzerland and several other European countries appear to be weighing the possibilities of returning Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers.

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• 14 November 2014 – The number of asylum-seekers in Europe from Eritrea during the first 10 months of 2014 has tripled compared with last year, with large numbers of refugees from the country also fleeing to neighbouring Ethiopia and Sudan, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said today.

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• Her Journalist Father at an Early Age: Her name is Sara Paulos kidane. She is now four and half years old. She was the only child to her father. She is now an asylum seeker under the care of her mother, Tsehayalem Araya Tesfu in Kampala (Uganda).Report written by Kiflemariam Melake Negassi,June, 2010

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• Every year hundreds of migrants, including asylum-seekers from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan, attempt to cross into Israel via Egypt.

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• to Israel. 'Held in containers' Father Zerai, an Eritrean by birth, runs the Habeshia Agency for Development Cooperation from the Vatican - a charity for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. The hostages sometimes contact him by phone, relating the conditions in which they are kept. They are held by Bedouin gangs, often in appalling circumstances - detained in shipping containers or

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• to lack of medical treatment. The government did not investigate or prosecute any reports of security force abuse. b. Disappearance Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers repatriated from other countries during the year reportedly disappeared and an unknown number of persons assumed to be in government detention have also disappeared. The government does not provide information on disappearanc

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• . One of the most frequently-named prisons holding recently-arrested political prisoners is Adi Abeto prison near Asmara. This is used for conscripts, returned asylum seekers, and members of minority churches.

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• We have seen great tragedy these days where around 80 Eritrean asylum seekers who departed to claim asylum in Italy, perished in the sea. Only five of them survived to tell the tragedy. They floated on the deep seas for more than 20 days on 12- meter rubber boat yet no rescue. Is there any body who can believe that the eagle eyes of the sea patrol did not notice them? It can never ever happen. Man

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• Even if they do manage to escape, their nightmare is not over. In recent years Malta, Libya, Sudan, Egypt and even Britain have returned asylum- seekers to Eritrea, where they are viewed as traitors to the nation-building cause and treated as such. They face almost certain incarceration, torture and possibly death. The Human Rights Watch report calls for an absolute prohibition on all forcible ret

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• ael Must Refrain From Binding Migrant Workers to Their Employers 3-Amnesty Alert UA:175/11 Index:AFR 54/019/2011 Sudan ( June 2011 URGENT ACTION Asylum Seekers and Refugees Risk Forcible Return to Eritrea

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• The Swiss Federal Council, the highest governing authority in the country, is currently hotly debating a proposed draft law aiming to stop mainly Eritrean asylum seekers (army deserters) from entering the country in big numbers, Swiss papers reported this week.

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• 0 Beja Sudanese and approximately 600 Ethiopians in the Gash Barka region to which UNHCR has no access or responsibility. UNHCR was accommodating 200 Ethiopian asylum seekers who arrived during the year. UNHCR reported that approximately 9,378 refugees were repatriated from Sudan during the year. The repatriation movements had been halted from July 2002 until June due to political tensions with S

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• ‘foreign’. Muslims belonging to new, unrecognised groups are likewise targeted, as are followers of the Bahai faith. “Others who are jailed include, failed asylum seekers, businessmen and merchants suspected of hoarding goods or otherwise engaging in black market activities, journalists who have been critical or are suspected of being potential critics and a range of political dissidents, r

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• Since the recent removal of the 230 asylum seekers from Misrata to al-Biraq detention centre, two have been taken away by security guards, and their whereabouts are still unknown. We can only hope that they are still alive.

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• . He was head of Human Resource Development at the Commercial Bank of Eritrea in Asmaraa. He is currently back in the UK and working with Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers at Eritrean Elders Welfare Association and the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum. The author wishes to thank “Unlimited” for awarding him the Millennium Award to carry out the study and contribute to the welfare of the Er

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• n working to support Eritrean immigration detainees report that, in the weeks since the revolution in Egypt, little has changed for the better for the Eritrean asylum seekers and refugees currently there. Many remain in the hands, and at the mercy, of the human traffickers, and since the revolution, neither the army nor the police are making much of an effort to curb their activities. The military

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• ns named Haile. Misgina, Dawit, and Tesfu. He was born in Maylaham (ማይለሓም) a village in Margusse (መራጉዝ) the Southern Region but grew up in Tesenai. An Eritrean asylum seeker in Israel, Tecle Hibtay, who paid 13,000 USD for her freedom, is willing to report to the Israeli police and testify against him in the court of law. His phone number is 054-7142589. Although he changes his number frequently,

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• t two years she has led PHR-I’s efforts to call attention to human trafficking in Sinai, Egypt, including sexual slavery and the torture of hundreds of African asylum seekers. PHR-I developed a groundbreaking research project that has interviewed hundreds of victims living in Israel. This painstaking work was accomplished by the devotion of Sister Aziza who helped identify men, women, and children

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• AT LEAST eight asylum-seekers have drowned trying to cross a river in Sudan during an attempt to smuggle them out of a refugee camp, the UN refugee agency said Thursday.

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• During the first ten months of 2014, the number of asylum-seekers in Europe from Eritrea has nearly tripled. In Ethiopia and Sudan, neighbouring Eritrea, the number of Eritrean refugees has also increased sharply. So far this year, nearly 37,000 Eritreans have sought refuge in Europe, compared to almost 13,000 during the same period last year. Most asylum requests have been lodged in Sweden, Germa

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• Of the asylum-seekers treated at PHR-I's Open Clinic, 59% said they were imprisoned under close guard and/or chained, 52% saying they experienced extreme violence. Two-thirds reported severe thirst, 88% saying they lacked food and nearly starved.

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• ted from the reports of reputable human rights organisations are consistent with those elicited from refugees in the UK, Sweden and Italy. I have also excluded asylum seekers because of the concern that they may have an incentive to overstate their plight. The involuntary nature of the NS and the WYDC There is no freedom of press and expression in Eritrea, and consequently it is difficult to gauge p

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• “for- eign”. Muslims belonging to new, unrecognised groups are likewise targeted, as are followers of the Bahai faith. Others who are jailed include, failed asylum seekers, busi- nessmen and merchants suspected of hoarding goods or 90 Kibreab, Eritrea: A Dream Deferred, op. cit., pp. 32, 61. 91 Tronvoll, Lasting Struggle for Freedom, op. cit., pp. 38-45. 92 “Service for Life”, op. cit.,

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• ional crimes. TEN LONG YEARS 6 To All Countries • Abide by the guidance of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that particular categories of asylum seekers may be at risk upon return, in particular, persons avoiding military/national service; members of political opposition groups and Government critics; journalists; trade unionists; members of minority religious groups; memb

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• Geneva - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday condemned Sudan's deportation of asylum-seekers to Eritrea, which left one person dead and another one unconscious in hospital. In an incident on Monday, "two asylum-seekers jumped off the truck carrying them to the border with Eritrea," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in a statement. "One of them, aged 23, died from his inju

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• er the payment of a ransom by their families. The refugees, in captivity, would have suffered ill-treatment, torture and abuse. The refoulement of refugees and asylum seekers is a serious violation of the 1951 Geneva Convention, a treaty which was also signed by Israel. What makes these actions even more hateful, is that Israeli military authorities have ordered the young soldiers to commit such a

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• repressive regimes, Eritreans are fleeing the Horn of Africa in droves. Some 3,356 applied for asylum in Switzerland in 2011, making them the largest group of asylum seekers.

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• d incommunicado indefinitely without charge, trial or any other legal process. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recommended that even rejected asylum-seekers from Eritrea should not be returned, advice which seems to have been generally observed internationally.

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• These reports were supported by subsequent interviews with Eritrean soldiers who deserted successfully. The report also claims that ―Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers who were repatriated from other countries during the year reportedly disappeared.‖ For example, ―[i]n June the government of Egypt repatriated several hundred Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers, all of whom were returne

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• s , who also included Idris Ismail, Executive Committee member in charge of the  Eastern Sudan region, and Mansour Siraj, EPP Central Council member, have seen asylum seekers receiving  basic supplies like lentils, bread, tents, blankets and plastic sheeting.    Those who pass the screening process at the reception center to receive refugee status, are kept at one of the  Shegerab segments with ov

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• doing since you moved to Tel Aviv? I graduated from high school, and I currently work part-time at UNHCR and ARDC as a translator between staff members and asylum seekers. I am planning to apply for university next year in Tel Aviv. I want to study medicine so that I can become a pediatrician. I also volunteer with the Hagar and Miriam project that helps young African asylum seekers who are

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• Asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa have been the focus of recent press scare-mongering after three of the suspects in the attempted bombings in London on 21 July were revealed to be refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Now a new report, available to download from IRR News, sheds light on the reality of Eritrea and its refugees. The report Refugees and the Development of Africa: Eritre

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• Eritrean asylum seeker details recent hunger strike, fear of indefinite incarceration Some 500 asylum seekers held in a prison in the desert recently refused food in protest of a new law that enables Israel to keep them in detention indefinitely. By Sharon Livne “Don’t tell anyone my name, I’m afraid of what they’ll do to me here if they know I talked.” So began a nighttime telephone call

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• Physicians for Human Rights published a report on Wednesday detailing the extreme hardship that asylum-seekers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula experience while on their journey to cross into Israel.

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• ion was conducted outside Downing Street in London on Friday 24 September 2004. The demonstrators called for justice, the rule of law and for the protection of asylum seekers. At the end of the peaceful demonstration a letter was handed to the representative of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The letter highlighted the gross human rights violations in Eritrea and the absence of tolerance to a

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• Egypt started a crackdown in June with deportations of hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers, the largest in decades. Egyptian police shot dead at least 28 African migrants at the border with Israel in 2008.

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• Since the beginning of the New Year, 1599 Eritrean asylum seekers have arrived at various Sudanese refugee camps.

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• Her Journalist Father at an Early Age: Her name is Sara Paulos kidane. She is now four and half years old. She was the only child to her father. She is now an asylum seeker under the care of her mother, Tsehayalem Araya Tesfu in Kampala (Uganda).Report written by Kiflemariam Melake Negassi,June, 2010

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• ce risk of torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. Until the “pushback” policy was enacted by the Berlusconi government in May, more than three-quarters of asylum seekers arriving on Italy’s southern shores were granted protection. The policy has cut the number of migrants arriving in Italy by more than three-quarters in just one year, to just over 7,000. A large proportion of those pushed

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• The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, reported 474, 296 Eritreans globally to be refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2015, about 12 percent of Eritrea’s official 3.6 million population estimate. European countries continue to attempt to stem the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from Eritrea. A Swiss immigration fact-finding mission to Asmara, Eritrea’s capital, in March, however, con

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• esettlement. The refugees have been in detention in Libyan prisons. In many EU nations, Eritreans account for the highest, or one of the highest, number of asylum seekers.

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• ce but rather forced to serve indefinitely under threats of detention, torture, or familial reprisal. An international organization assesses that many Eritrean asylum seekers, particularly those who deserted National Service when they fled, expressed well-founded fears of persecution in Eritrea, and there are an unknown number of cases of returnees disappearing, presumably in prison, with their wh

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• For over two months the refugees and asylum seekers have been held in chains in purpose built facilities south of Rafah on Egypt’s border with Israel. Despite having paid US$2000 each for transfer to Israel, traffickers are torturing them in order to obtain an additional $8000 per person from their family and friends abroad. They are repeatedly beaten, branded like cattle, and are often deprived o

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• d prisoners of conscience to court. When ERA became financially strong and became the favourite of many charity organisations Mary extended her work to help asylum seekers from various countries. She helped the Kurds, Tamils, Afghanis, Ethiopians (Tigreans, Oromos, etc.) as well as Eritreans to get asylum in the UK. She had an incredible energy that miraculously enabled her to serve all these g

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• Since the beginning of the New Year, 1599 Eritrean asylum seekers have arrived at various Sudanese refugee camps.

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• ill have their cases reviewed by UNHCR. However, only full protection of international human rights standards in the country will bring an end to the flight of asylum-seekers and the free and safe return of all who had fled in the past decades or more recently.

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• On 27 September Amnesty International wrote to the Maltese Home Affairs and Environment Minister, Dr Tonio Borg, expressing concern that recently arrived asylum seekers from Eritrea and other countries could be at risk of serious human rights violations if they were returned to their countries of origin and their claims for protection were not adequately examined. The organization called on the go

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• In a move local human rights activists say is unprecedented, Egypt deported at least 1,200 asylum seekers in June. Against both domestic and international law and in spite of a warning by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that they would likely be arrested and even tortured upon their return, the government allegedly prevented thousands of Eritreans from claiming asylum bef

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• The suffering of refugees does not end when they leave their country. My brother still has no other status than that of an 'asylum seeker'. Even if recognised, he too will be placed in a camp.

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• , shattering his hopes for freedom and putting his life in grave danger. Contrary to Swedish government assertions last week, the 23-year old male Eritrean asylum seeker had met the necessary requirements for refugee protection under Sweden’s asylum rules and international human rights laws. Still, the authorities are adamant in executing a faulty administrative determination and are said

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• A Stockholm court has charged two young Swedish nationals of Middle Eastern origin with extortion in connection with the kidnappings of Eritrean asylum seekers. The two, aged 21 and 18, allegedly demanded money from families living in Sweden for the safe return of loved ones. The suspects, who were arrested in February, have been accused of trying to extort $33,000 (£22,000) in ransom demands.

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• AFP: KHARTOUM — Sudan has condemned more than 300 Eritreans asylum seekers to “certain detention and abuse” by deporting them to one of the “most brutal” countries in the world, a rights group said on Tuesday.

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• did not ask what happened to them because they knew they had been raped." GA, who spoke to IRIN in the Israeli city of Jaffa, is just one of the hundreds of asylum-seekers trafficked by international gangs every month from the Horn of Africa to the Middle East, mainly through Sudan, ostensibly in search of better opportunities. However, say human rights groups, many of them end up in captivity.

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• nations to international refugee conventions to respect the non-return advisory issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees regarding Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers, since refugees who are forcibly returned to Eritrea face lengthy imprisonment, possible torture and even death. It is vital that all nations begin to treat Eritrean refugees in accordance with their international obligations

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• afrol News, 12 June - Human rights groups are outraged as Egyptian authorities forcibly have returned a group of around 200 asylum-seekers to Eritrea this week and further are to be sent. Eritrean returnees in many cases have been submitted to severe torture.

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• I write to you after a long and disturbing week in which we faced a pogrom against asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv. A pogrom that reached a pick but was not stopped completely up until now. We continue to receive information about hate crimes against asylum seekers in different places around the country. I wish to share with you the testimony of Elisabeth Tsurkov, a HMW devoted volunteer, who

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• to the recent landmark ruling of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights[22] as well as the latest position of UNHCR[23] on the return of rejected asylum seekers to Eritrea.

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