Denmark, Norway and Sweden suspend consideration of asylum applications from Syrian refugees

Denmark, Norway and Sweden announced today that they are suspending the processing of asylum applications for Syrian refugees, a day after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The Danish Refugee Council has “decided to suspend the processing of cases related to persons originating from Syria, due to the highly uncertain situation in the country after the fall of the Assad regime,” it said in a press release. The decision currently concerns 69 cases, it is clarified. In addition, it “decided to postpone the departure deadline for people who are expected to be deported to Syria”, which concerns 50 cases, he clarifies. In the summer of 2020, Denmark became the first EU country to review hundreds of Syrian refugee cases on the grounds that “the current situation in Damascus is no longer of such a nature as to justify a residence permit or its extension”. In reality, there was no forced repatriation of Syrian refugees to Syria. Denmark has a very restrictive policy […]
Source: News Beast

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