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Dutch asylum agency is fined 50,000 euros daily for an overcrowded center
A Dutch court has ordered the agency responsible for housing asylum seekers to pay a 50,000-euro ($54,000) penalty for every day that more than 2,000 migrants stay at an overcrowded center in the ...World - ABC News - October 30 -
Asylum housing provider Clearsprings’ profits jump on high demand
Bumper profits risk fuelling government concerns over large amounts paid to private companies to handle politically sensitive issueWorld - Financial Times - November 1 -
Revealed: English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was serial stalker
Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and targeted a former GB News presenter. A neo-Nazi terrorist who was found guilty ...World - The Guardian - November 2 -
UK looks at handing asylum seeker housing contracts back to local councils
Exploratory talks follow criticism of private outsourcing groups and concern about their high profitsBusiness - Financial Times - November 4 -
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Human rights groups urge Polish PM to shelve plan to suspend right to asylum
More than 60 NGOs including Holocaust memorial group tell Donald Tusk region’s volatility ‘doesn’t exempt us from humanity’. Human rights organisations and a Holocaust memorial group have urged the ...World - The Guardian - October 15 -
First Italian navy ship with 16 intercepted migrants docks at an Albanian port to process their asylum request
First Italian navy ship with 16 intercepted migrants docks at an Albanian port to process their asylum requestWorld - ABC News - October 16 -
Italian ship transfers 16 intercepted migrants to Albania in a first under their new migration plan
An Italian navy ship docked at the Albanian port of Shengjin to bring the first group of 16 migrants intercepted in international watersWorld - ABC News - October 16 -
Activist Paul Watson asks France for political asylum to avoid possible extradition to Japan
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling and arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France’s president for political asylumWorld - ABC News - October 16 -
Son of Singapore founder says ‘campaign of persecution’ forced him to seek asylum in UK
Exclusive: Lee Hsien Yang says Singapore is no ‘paradise’ after fleeing authoritarian regime that his older brother inherited and still holds sway over through their revered father’s legacy. A ...World - The Guardian - October 22 -
Switzerland to close 9 centers for asylum-seekers as fewer people arrive than expected
Swiss authorities say they will shut nine temporary centers for asylum-seekers because the number of people seeking asylum recently has been below expectationsWorld - ABC News - October 22 -
Lee Kuan Yew's youngest son says the UK has granted him asylum from persecution in Singapore
Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, says he is now a “political refugee” after the British government granted him asylum from what he described ...World - ABC News - October 22 -
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Anti-whaling activist detained in Greenland requests French citizenship after asylum bid dismissed
Environmental activist Paul Watson, who is detained in Greenland and facing possible extradition to Japan, has formally requested French citizenship after France’s Foreign Minister said his bid for ...World - ABC News - October 25 -
Europe's human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum
A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog is urging the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers who have for months been ...World - ABC News - October 30 -
UK asylum system would descend into chaos without more hotels, says minister
Angela Eagle said short-term solution necessary despite Labour election pledge to end use of accommodation. The asylum system would “descend into chaos” if Labour refused to open more hotels for ...World - The Guardian - November 3