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InfoMigrants

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InfoMigrants

@InfoMigrants

#InfoMigrants offers verified news and information about asylum and migration to Europe. Available in English, Arabic, French, Dari, Pashto and Bengali.

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Joined January 2017

InfoMigrants
@InfoMigrants
Jun 16, 2023
📷 Brothers Mohammad and Fadi were reunited in Kalamata, Greece, today. The Syrian teenager survived the deadly capsizing off a ship carrying hundreds of migrants. His older brother came to Greece from the Netherlands to search for the 18-year old.
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InfoMigrants
@InfoMigrants
Jun 8, 2021
Greece aims to send back asylum seekers from Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria and Bangladesh who arrive from Turkey. The government says they are not in danger in Turkey and have no need of protection in Europe.
Greece: More asylum seekers could be sent back to Turkey under government plan
From infomigrants.net
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@InfoMigrants
Jan 14, 2021
18-year-old Guinean baker's apprentice Laye Fodé Traoré has been granted a residency permit in France. His employer had gone on hunger strike to protest against his deportation; the campaign drew global attention. infomigrants.net/en/post/29643/…
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Jun 6, 2025
The 'Madleen' activist vessel has rescued four migrants after responding to a mayday call from Frontex about a vessel in distress. Franco-Palestinian MEP @RimaHas told us the rescued migrants had jumped in the water to avoid being sent back to Libya.
Activist boat with aid for Gaza rescues four migrants in Mediterranean Sea
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@InfoMigrants
Jul 27, 2021
📷 Residents of the village of Rudnininkai, Lithuania, protested on Monday (Juy 26) against government plans to set up a new camp to accommodate up to 1,500 migrants. Several dozen people tried to block the road to prevent trucks carrying items for the camp from passing through.
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@InfoMigrants
Apr 5, 2019
"I have to have those direct conversations[...] with refugees and the displaced, because that’s how we get a much better idea of how we can do our jobs better." We interviewed @KellyTClements, the deputy high commissioner of the UN @Refugees agency:
More work to do to empower refugees: UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements
From infomigrants.net
InfoMigrants
@InfoMigrants
Mar 2, 2023
📷Hundreds of people protested against Italian and European border & migration policy in Rome yesterday. They called for open borders & increased rescue efforts at sea. Migrant aid NGOs organized the protest after a shipwreck off Calabria left at least 65 people dead on Sunday.
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@InfoMigrants
Jan 31, 2022
Poland is building a border wall – 5.5 meters high, 180+ kilometers long – to keep migrants and refugees from entering the country.
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@InfoMigrants
Jun 20, 2022
📷 Thousand of migrants, refugees and their allies took to the streets in Naples, Italy, on Saturday and Friday ahead of #WorldRefugeeDay. They were protesting against discrimination and labor exploitation, and for a swift issuing of stay permits to asylum seekers.
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@InfoMigrants
Mar 4, 2023
Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano was one of the first persons to witness Sunday's migrant shipwreck near Crutone, Italy, which has so far claimed 67 lives. Luciano pulled bodies from the sea. He spoke of his sorrow and guilt that he could not do more.
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@InfoMigrants
Oct 22, 2024
Italy's 🇮🇹 government has approved a new decree to overcome legal obstacles to its Albania 🇦🇱 plan for outsourcing #asylum procedures. The decree is effective immediately and defines 'safe' countries in law.
Italy: Government adopts new decree to force through Albania plan
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@InfoMigrants
Jan 13, 2021
📷 Protesters at Düsseldorf airport demonstrated last night against the deportation of 26 failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan. The flight arrived in Kabul this morning, marking the 35th deportation flight from Germany to war-torn Afghanistan since 12/2016. Photos: Private
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@InfoMigrants
Sep 8, 2021
The Danish government plans to make migrants work full-time jobs if they want to continue receiving state benefits. Announcing the plan on Tuesday the government said it was designed to help migrants assimilate into society.
Denmark: Migrants may be forced to work for welfare benefits
From infomigrants.net
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@InfoMigrants
Jul 27, 2023
📷 These migrants are stuck at the Tunisian-Libyan border. They were forced into the border region by Tunisian forces, and Libyan border guards reportedly won’t let them cross. Now, they are living in a makeshift camp in Ras Ajdir next to the barbed-wire border fence.
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