EU court: Asylum seekers badly treated
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Belgium to pay two Palestinian asylum seekers $21,861 in damages for what it called inhuman and degrading treatment when they were waiting for deportation at Belgian detention centers.
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A failed asylum-seeker has been sentenced to 12 years&#039; jail in Syria after being forcibly returned to the Middle Eastern state from Britain, Amnesty International said.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Plans by the European Union to allow police to  study data on asylum-seekers have run into difficulty amid  concerns that the move could result in victims of persecution  being treated as criminal suspects.
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The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a report accusing Britain, Germany, Italy and other EU nations of turning a blind eye to CIA flights transporting terror suspects to secret prisons overseas in an apparent breach of EU human rights standards.
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A refugee charity claims failed asylum seekers in Wales are being left destitute by Home Office rules.
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A failed asylum seeker convicted of rape is to be awarded damages after being unlawfully detained in prison.
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Controversy over asylum for high-profile Chechen refugees has sparked renewed European calls for extra-territorial refugee camps to vet asylum seekers, but human rights groups argue such camps are complicated ...
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The indefinite detention without trial of foreign nationals under emergency terror laws is incompatible with European human rights laws, the Law Lords have ruled.
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EU officials fail to agree on a list of countries from where asylum applications will be presumed to be unfounded.
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An immigration judge Wednesday rejected an asylum application from a Guinean man whose case has attracted international support and who says his life will be in danger if he is deported to his homeland.
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The European Court of Human Rights condemned Britain for violating the rights of two activists convicted of libelling US fast food chain McDonald's, ending a 15-year legal battle.
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The husbands of women forced to abort a pregnancy, undergo involuntary sterilization or face persecution under China's coercive population control program do not automatically qualify for asylum, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
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A top European court ordered EU antitrust regulators Wednesday to pay damages to French firm Schneider for wrongfully blocking its takeover bid of a rival, potentially opening a floodgate to other cases.
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Fears that rejected asylum seekers would be driven underground by a decision to stop their welfare benefits have been confirmed.
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Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror laws breaks European human rights laws, law lords ruled today. The decision from nine of the law lords, who make up Britain&#39;s highest court, throws
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The European Court of Justice on Tuesday overturned an EU decision to put the People's Mujahadeen of Iran, an exiled Iranian resistance movement, on the bloc's terror blacklist.
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The United Nations refugee agency rebukes Malta for its treatment of asylum seekers.