{"id":98616,"date":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11567\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:00:00","slug":"11567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11567","title":{"rendered":"UN Levels Heavy Criticism at Denmark over Repatriation of Syria Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denmark is facing growing criticism for a decision last year to revoke residence permits for Syrian refugees, citing a \u201csafe\u201dsituation around Damascus, but the country is sticking to its position.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tough Danish stance is a new sign of the country now having one of Europe’s most restrictive migration policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was concerned about Denmark’s decision, even with deportations currently suspended because of a lack of collaboration between Denmark and the Syrian government after years of civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n

UNHCR said it \u201cdoes not consider that the recent improvements in security in parts of Syria to be sufficiently fundamental, stable or durable to justify ending international protection for any group of refugees\u201d\u009d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rights group Amnesty International has also denounced the \u201cworrisome development\u201d\u009d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark keeps sending signals that they don’t want any asylum seekers in the country and scaring the ones who are here into returning to their home countries even when they are not safe,\u201dLisa Blinkenberg, a senior adviser for Amnesty in Denmark, told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is Denmark the worst place in Europe but the country also shows a lack of solidarity with other European countries refusing to take a share in the burden,\u201dHansen said.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, despite criticism even from within parliament, the government is sticking to its guns.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe government’s policy is working, and I won’t back down, it won’t happen,\u201dSocial Democratic immigration minister Mattias Tesfaye said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark has been open and honest from day one. We have made it clear to the Syrian refugees that their residence permit is temporary and that the permit can be revoked if the need for protection ceases to exist,\u201dTesfaye told AFP on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nordic country has a stated goal of \u201czero asylum seekers\u201d\u009d, and also offers special grants for voluntary returnees’ grants, which were accepted by 137 Syrians in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denmark is facing growing criticism for a decision last year to revoke residence permits for Syrian refugees, citing a \u201csafe\u201dsituation around Damascus, but the country is sticking to its position. The tough Danish stance is a new sign of the country now having one of Europe’s most restrictive migration policies. Last week, the UN High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64518,"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-98616","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\/98616","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=98616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}