{"id":87732,"date":"2021-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11402\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:00:00","slug":"11402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11402","title":{"rendered":"Activists Launch Legal Move against Sweden over Asylum Seeking Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Association of Refugees’ Rights in Sweden has initiated a legal action against the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in response to the latter’s apathy regarding Palestinian refugees who have been denied asylum in Sweden.<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement said a memorandum will be passed on by lawyers and human rights activists to the UNHCR to speak up for Palestinians whose asylum applications have been turned down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over recent months, the Swedish Migration Agency has turned down applications for humanitarian asylum by Palestinian refugees fleeing Damascus, claiming the city is a secure zone and the refugees can safely return to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

A number of Palestinian refugees told AGPS that the Swedish migration authorities turned down their applications for visas which they had submitted in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

A refugee said he had appealed the Agency’s decision, saying his family had been chased down by the Syrian security forces and once they return to Damascus they will be arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human rights activists said Sweden no longer considers Syria an unsafe place for refugees. In order for visa applications to be accepted, the refugee should provide proofs of personal threats.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, a new debate was opened by the migration committee at the Swedish parliament to determine post-coronavirus migration policy in the kingdom. The proposed draft law seeks to replace the temporary asylum law that will remain into effect until next summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Official Swedish statistics indicate that 3,296 Palestinian asylum-seekers categorized as \u201cstateless\u201dreceived citizenship documents in Sweden in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Association of Refugees’ Rights in Sweden has initiated a legal action against the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in response to the latter’s apathy regarding Palestinian refugees who have been denied asylum in Sweden. The statement said a memorandum will be passed on by lawyers and human rights activists to the UNHCR to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}