Four #Rwandans were granted refugee status in the UK over “well-founded” fears of persecution at the same time as the government was arguing in court and parliament that the east African country was a safe place to send asylum seekers.
#ToryLies #hypocrites #UK #asylum #fascism #racism #ToryFascism #ToryScum #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #InternationalLaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTVTtakCgmM
The #Lunatics Have Taken Over the #Asylum (Fun Boy three )
#refugees #migrants #asylum/
IS IT LEGAL TO CROSS US BORDER TO SEEK ASYLUM?
Yes, seeking asylum is legal. Asylum seekers must be in the U.S. or at a port of entry (an airport or an official land crossing) to request the opportunity to apply for asylum. "There's no way to ask for a visa or any type of authorization in advance for the purpose of seeking asylum.
https://www.rescue.org/article/it-legal-cross-us-border-seek-asylum
#emigration #asylum
Most of the desperate people seeking asylum in America at the Texas-Mexican border have traveled - with great hardships - from Venezuela.
How any people have left Venezuela in 2023?
7.71 million people
Which president ruined Venezuela?
Yet another Trump-style dictator.
- An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez and has worsened during the presidency of his successor Nicolás Maduro. It has been marked by hyperinflation, escalating starvation, disease, crime, destruction of the environment and mortality rates, resulting in massive emigration from the country.
Following the denial of political #asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the #Belarusian #peacebuilder and #HumanRights defender Olga Karatch (Volha Karach), the international campaign #protection4olga has just been launched to demand #protection and asylum for the director of the organisation ‘Our House‘. She has been fighting for human rights in #Belarus for years, including the right to #ConscientiousObjection to #military service, and is therefore persecuted and faces capital punishment in her country of origin, where she has been labelled a ‘terrorist’ by the regime.
Isn't it odd that politicians in office can break the law and not have to resign, be fined, get a criminal record or go to jail if they are caught doing something illegal as part of their jobs?
#TheSpecials - The #Lunatics (Have Taken Over The #Asylum)
"Oddly #prophetic and socially relevant"
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4RZgMmb68
Lyrics
… See a clinic full of cynics
Who want to twist the peoples' wrist
They're watching every move we make
We're all included on the list
… The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
… No nuclear the cowboy told us
And who am I to disagree
'Cause when the madman flips the switch
The nuclear will go for me
… The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
… I've seen the faces of starvation
But I just can not see the points
'Cause there's so much food here today
That no one wants to take away
… The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my right to choose
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my point of view
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my dignity
Take these things away from me
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my family
Take away the right to speak
The lunatics have taken over the asylum take away my point of view
Take away my right to choose
Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh say they've suffered immeasurable harm from Australia's offshore detention policy. They're using the release of a new documentary, in which they both feature, to call for it to end. SBS
#human-rights #detention #imprisonment #refuge #asylum #Australia #oz
Applications for asylum from citizens of #Venezuela, #Peru and #Colombia in the European Union skyrocketed in March and are at levels close to the all-time high, according to community statistics, which place Spain as the main destination for those who arrive in #Europe from those three Latin American countries.
In March alone, the 27 #EU countries, #Norway and #Switzerland received some 92,000 #asylum requests, with #Syrians (10,000), #Afghans (9,500) as the main applicant nationalities, mainly in #Germany. Among the countries that are growing the most is #Turkey (5,900), whose data is now more than double that of the same month in 2022.
The UK is becoming increasingly authoritarian and is among concerning company in the Civicus Monitor ratings as restrictive laws and dangerous rhetoric are creating a hostile environment towards civil society in the UK.”
It is also concerned by what it sees as the UK government’s attempts to undermine human rights and its hostility towards charities and campaigners who actively oppose or speak out against its policies on climate change, anti-racism and refugee and asylum seeker rights.
The UK government’s increasingly hardline approach is reflected in a separate annual survey of charities by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK), which reveals widespread alarm at the extent of ministers perceived hostility to civil society and enthusiasm for cracking down on long-held freedoms to organise and protest.
“The results of our survey, alongside the news Civicus has downgraded the UK as obstructed, should be a wake-up call. Our civic space is experiencing death by a thousand cuts and, at a time when ‘Global Britain’ is trying to carve out its new space in the world, we find ourselves in the same class as countries we have previously been a democratic example to,” said the SMK chief executive, Sue Tibballs.
#ToryFascistDictatorship #DemocracyNotAutocracy #CivilRights #authoritarian #hostile #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #ToryScum #asylum #AsylumSeekers #refugee #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #protests #PoliceState #racism #fascism
https://mondediplo.com/2023/02/03latin-america-assange
While successive #US administrations and their intelligence agencies have threatened #Assange financially, physically and legally over the past 13 years, nine #LatinAmerican-heads-of-state are demanding his #release. They include #XiomaraCastro-Honduras, #AndrésManuelLópezObrador-Mexico, #DanielOrtega-Nicaragua, #MiguelDíaz-Canel-Cuba, #NicolásMaduro-Venezuela, #GustavoPetro-Colombia, #LuisArce-Bolivia, #AlbertoFernández-Argentina and #LuizInácioLuladaSilva-Brazil. #Lula has even suggested that Assange should be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize for having ‘shed light on the shady dealings of the #CIA,' while Mexico’s #Obrador has offered Assange #asylum and #protection.
#latinamerica #southamerica #julianassange #wikileaks #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange
"If the #Kremlin were after #JulianAssange, #governments would be #competing for the #honour of offering him #political #asylum."
#DionJack #journalist #quote
#freeassange #wikileaks #truth #truthteller #dropallcharges #pressfreedom #weareallassange
After months of investigating, we’ve found where #asylum seekers, including children, are being detained.
While European passengers are enjoying their holiday trips on board #Superfast ferries, below deck - in metal boxes & dark rooms - asylum seekers from #Afghanistan #Syria & #Iraq are detained.
#Europe #Inhumanity #Refugees #Politics
Follo Twitter tread for full info:
https://twitter.com/saracreta/status/1615818303565438977
"The #Taliban forbid women to go out alone or attend universities, #Israel confirms it is a racist, apartheid state, Rohingya #refugees despair, executions continue in #Iran, #Russia is reducing #Ukraine to ashes, the #Myanmar military promote brutality, fascist-like Republicans shackle the US #Congress, #asylum seekers are punished by UK and Australian governments, and #Julian #Assange still languishes in a top security prison.
Despite all this, media time has been diverted to something allegedly more worthy of public interest: the contents of the Duke of Sussex, alias Harry Windsor’s ‘Spare’, which, on the first day of sales, 400,000 people are reported to have bought.
‘Bought’ is the operative word. It can mean you’ve been fooled into taking something seriously instead of discarding it at first sight."
https://johnmenadue.com/prince-harrys-outrage-spare-a-thought/
