Denmark deems Syrian province right for returning refugees, being concerned UNHCR
By Johannes Birkebaek and Nikolaj Skydsgaard
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The Danish Refugee Appeals Board on Friday deemed it right for Syrian refugees to intention abet to Latakia province within the western section of the nation, elevating considerations on the UN Refugee Company.
When the Danish Immigration Provider decides to take hold of away a refugee’s residency permit, the case robotically goes to the appeals board, the ideally suited authority in asylum instances in Denmark, for consideration.
The province of Latakia, a stronghold of the Bashar al Assad authorities bordering the Mediterranean Sea, has no longer seen a related quantity of fight as central and eastern provinces.
The appeals board acknowledged in an announcement that improved safety within the province made it right for refugees to intention abet.
Since 2019, Denmark has revoked residency permits for 150 Syrian nationals from Damascus and the surrounding space out of additional than 1,300 instances reviewed, per the Immigration Provider.
A UN Refugee Company spokeswoman called Denmark’s decision “regarding” and acknowledged the company did not have in options enhancements within the protection divulge in Syria to be adequate “to make clear ending global safety for any team of refugees”.
In 2021, European lawmakers criticized Denmark for trying to ship refugees abet to Damascus after Danish authorities claimed conditions within the capital had improved.
“We have made it particular to the Syrian refugees that their place permit is immediate and that the permit might well well moreover be revoked if the need for safety ceases to exist,” then Immigration Minister Mattias Tesfaye informed Reuters on the time.
Denmark and Hungary are the ideally suited two EU international locations to have revoked residency permits for Syrian refugees, per Amnesty Worldwide.
Those refugees in Denmark had been despatched to intention abet centres or left the nation voluntarily.
(Reporting by Johannes Birkebaek and Nikolaj Skydsgaard; Enhancing by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Slash Macfie)
