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Letter from Inhabitant of Lier ventemottak, 1 April 2009
The asylum seekers with a final negative decision who are living in Lier ventemottak have been under increasing pressure from the staff lately. It does not seem accidental, it seems like a plan. |
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28 March 2009
28 March, Oslo "No to the EU" organised the seminar Does Fortress Europe Give Space for a Humane Asylum and Refugee Policy? Borderland's presentation at the seminar can be downloaded here. |
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26 March 2009
Saturday 28 March at 10.03 in the morning, and again Sunday 29 March at 21.03 in the evening, NRK Radio (P2) will air a documentary about paperless refugees in Norway. The documentary is called "Report from the Shadow Country". For further information, see NRK's web page. |
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Dagbladet, 23 March 2009
Borderland gives their comments to the Government's very positive decision that the MUF cases should be reconsidered, highlighting the ten years of chaos and fear this group of asylum seekers has gone through. |
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18 March 2009
The Government has decided that the cases of approximately 300 Kurds - the so called MUF cases - should be re-considered. The specific criteria are yet to be worked out. Borderland welcomes this measure as a humane effort to bring ten years of chaos and suffering to an end, and strongly hope this will resolve the situation for a group of asylum seekers who for so long have sought nothing else than safety and respect.
Read the Government's press release here. |
Letter from Inhabitant of Lier ventemottak, 16 March 2009
I am afraid I have a fear unknown to you outside and which hopefully will remain unknown to you. The fear lives within my stomach, my head, my feet and my hands. My hands tremble and are wet and cold like my grandmother’s hands when she died.
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Dagbladet, 16 March 2009
Rune Berglund Steen in Borderland states that the Norwegian Governments' difficulties in deporting rejected asylum seekers to a large part are of their own making: "Of course they will have a problem when they are increasingly rejecting asylum seekers from war zones and totalitarian states such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Eritrea, especially asylum seekers who according to the UN and Amnesty are in need of protection. Lier ventemottak has become a gathering place for sad destinies."
Read full story in Dagbladet. |
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