Serbian woman who hid in Halifax church concerned about immigration process
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HALIFAX (CP) - A Serbian woman who sought refuge in a Halifax church basement for 441 days before being forced to leave Canada is concerned about unexpected delays in handling her immigration application.
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ATHENS (Der Spiegel) - According to recent reports resulting from October fact-finding missions conducted by the German Working Group on Refugees, Pro Asyl, and the Greek Group, Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers on the Aegean coast.  Refugee organisations are demanding a response at the European level. ...refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food... It is hardly a secret that Greece has shown reluctance recently to accept refugees and asylum seekers. Earlier this year, the Mediterranean country was lampooned for the fact that it turned down almost all of the asylum applications it received from Iraqis fleeing violence back home.  But now it looks as though Greece may be in blatant violation of human rights norms. Reports released this month by Greek and German refugee organisations suggest that the Greek coast guard in the Aegean Sea has been systematically maltreating and obstructing asylum seekers arriving on their shores. Fact-finding missions conducted in summer and October of 2007 by Pro Asyl and Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants found that refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food.  The investigative missions visited three detention centers on Greek islands and found the conditions to be "degrading and inhuman." In one case, on the island of Chios, there were reports of electric shock treatments, mock executions and beatings. In an independent report, the Greek branch of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), described the detention center on Samos, an island less than two kilometers from the Turkish coast, as being "deplorable" and demanded that the government close it down. Fully 391 people were found living in a room designed for 120. The staff consisted of one doctor, one social worker and a caretaker. Read more...
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A London solicitor is charged with immigration offences.
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Police probing the disappearance of a Polish student in Glasgow find a body in the church where she was last seen.
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GORAZDEVAC, Serbia and Montenegro  - Milisav Dakic  said his wife had warned him not to let the children play  outside their Serb enclave in Kosovo. But the summer heat was  stifling, and the nearby stream was a popular place to cool  off.
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Many foreign nationals deported to their home countries are being   returned to the UK because of documentation problems.
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A man wanted over the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky may have fled dressed as a veiled Muslim woman, say reports.
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The threats by Koral Karsan, 50, a Turkish immigrant, were part of a letter read in court today.
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Relatives of foreigners who outstay their visas could face imprisonment, under plans put to the Tories.
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A U.S. diplomat said two top war crimes suspects _ Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic _ could be apprehended with a single phone call from Serbia's prime minister.Raffi Gregorian, deputy international administrator in Bosnia, told Bosnia's BHT1 television late Monday that the suspects were 'for sure' hiding in Serbia.'Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica can solve the issue of their arrest with just one phone call,' Gregorian said.Kostunica was traveling to New York for a Wednesday U.N. Security Council meeting on Kosovo and could not be reached for comment. He has repeatedly said that his government does not know where Karadzic and Mladic are hiding, and that authorities are doing everything in their power to find them. Read more
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A church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant from Mexico and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 for the city police presence during a weekend protest, officials said.
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A family living in Swansea seek clarification over whether they will be deported to Brazil.
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BELGRADE, Nov 21 (IPS) - It was 1950, towards the end of September, when  hundreds of Muslim women came on to the streets of Bosnian  capital Sarajevo and ceremonially took off their veils. The  symbolic act was intended to mark the end of an era when they  left their homes 'covered'.
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SEATTLE -- A man who gained refuge and later citizenship in Canada after fleeing Bosnia 10 years ago has been accused by U.S. immigration authorities of being a war criminal.
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POLICE frogmen are set to search the Thames for a woman who went missing after a church service, officers said yesterday. Maria Pereira has not been seen since the service at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Sunday, December 3.
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The case of a suspected agent raises questions about security at the U.S.-Canada border and what the alleged agent was after in the first place
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Neighbors of Elvira Carvajal sought refuge in her house so immigration agents wouldn't arrest them. Friends of Herman Martinez asked him to bring them milk for their children because they were afraid to step onto the streets.