Tag: asylum rights

Syrian refugees in VIenna, Austria in 2015 (Photo: Josh Zakary / Flickr.com)

Germany to Strip Rejected Asylum Seekers of Their Right to a Lawyer

Posted on September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 by FactRefuge

Chancellor Friedrich Merz will scrap a rule that offers legal support to asylum seekers awaiting to be deported, British newspaper The Telegraph reports. The law, passed by a previous government,….

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The Poland-Belatus border barrier in 2022 (Photo: Gov.pl / Wikimedia Commons)

Pressure and Peril at the Polish-Belarusian Border, Controversial Bill in Front of Lawmakers

Posted on March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 by Matthias Barend

Despite a border fence, heavily armed guards, and reports of rising violence in what is essentially an exclusion zone, the migration route through Belarus to Poland is a well-established one…..