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How the EU is building a dystopian, surveillance-driven, deportation machine
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‘Consent is Key’: Bulgaria Accused of Coercion Over Syrians’ ‘Voluntary’ Deportations
A year later, however, Imad was arrested in his home at dawn and then stripped of his residence permit by Bulgaria’s intelligence service, the State Agency for National Security, SANS, which cited national security reasons. Banned from re-entering the EU, Imad appealed unsuccessfully and remains in detention pending deportation. He told BIRN he is regularly interrogated. “They say I am a terrorist,” Imad said in July.
“Return, or prison”: Inside IOM and Greece’s failing migrant return scheme
GREECE’S new Minister of Migration, Thanos Plevris, has given a blunt ultimatum to those he calls “illegal migrants” in the country: “return, or prison”. A bill presented to Greece’s parliament in July proposes to reform the country’s procedures for removing third-country nationals. It would make rejected asylum seekers liable to a criminal sentence of two to five years if they remain undocumented. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian.
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