Phil Mercer VOA News / February 18, 2017 SYDNEY — Protesters have rallied in the Australian city of Melbourne to oppose a deal to send refugees held in offshore migrant camps to the United States. The agreement was struck last November with the Obama administration. Its future is unclear after President Trump called it a “dumb
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 12, 2017 Several thousand people took part in demonstrations across Germany to protest the forced return of Afghan refugees whose bids for asylum have been rejected. “The people who are forced to return cannot live their lives in safety there,” organizers in Hamburg said of the situation in Afghanistan. “A
Reuters: Of the accepted refugees, seven were from Afghanistan, four from Ethiopia and three from Eritrea, according to the document seen by Reuters. It was not clear whether any Syrians had applied for, or won, asylum. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV January 24, 2017 Germany has deported a second batch of Afghan refugees under a controversial deal between Kabul and the European Union. Kabul airport police spokesman, Mohammad Adjmal Fawzi, said the 26 men, escorted by 80 German police officers, landed in the Afghan capital shortly after 7:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday. “What
Brownsville Herald: Roin Khurami had never been hugged by a female who wasn’t related to him. And yet here she was — a woman he’d just met — embracing him at the BrownsvilleSouthPadre Island International Airport. She was there to pick up Khurami for a friend, South Padre Island resident Will Everett, who had secured a
VOA News January 2, 2017 Afghanistan’s first female fixed wing pilot in the country’s air force awaits a response to her asylum request to the United States, which she filed last month after receiving threats from Taliban insurgents, according to her lawyer. “Her reason for seeking asylum in the United States is she’s in fear
The Boston Globe: There is much that is compelling about the story of Captain Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan’s first female military pilot, who just completed flight training in the United States. It is a remarkable achievement for any Afghan woman to rise to such public professional heights. All of which makes her recently revealed request for asylum
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s first female pilot Nilofar Rahmani has dismissed reports of her apparent move to seek asylum in the U.S and reaffirmed her commitment to serve Afghanistan. Following a report published in the New York Times, Rahmani sent a letter to the Afghan Air Force and to TOLOnews stating that she had been misunderstood and
Reuters: There was an angry reaction in Afghanistan to news that the first female fixed-wing pilot in the country’s air force was requesting asylum in the United States after completing an 18-month training course. The Afghan Defense Ministry confirmed on Sunday that Captain Niloofar Rahmani, 25, had sought asylum after the Wall Street Journal quoted
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD — More than 30 Afghans returned home Thursday after their applications for asylum were rejected by Germany. The young men are the first of an estimated 12,000 Afghans the German government plans to forcibly send back to Afghanistan under a bilateral agreement. German officials say the migrants have