Statement comes after Denmark controversially refused to renew residency permits of 94 Syrian refugees
People demonstrate in front of the parliament building in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 6 October 2015, against the poor treatment of refugees (Soeren Bidstrup/Scanpix Denmark/AFP) By Published date: 20 April 2021 18:03 UTC | Last update: 21 hours 20 min ago
A group of experts who were consulted by the Danish government for a report that declared parts of Syria safe - allowing authorities to revoke residency permits for Syrians - criticised Denmark s controversial stance on Monday, saying that no Syrian refugee was safe enough to be forced to return.
Eight of the 12 experts consulted for the 2019 report wrote in a joint statement that their expert opinion, background information and other advice to the Danish Immigration Service was underappreciated .
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Copenhagen, Denmark – Ten years after the war in Syria broke out, Denmark is telling many Syrian refugees who have sought safety in the European country to return.
Around 500 Syrians have been thrust into this position of uncertainty and fear as Denmark prepares to cancel temporary residence permits of refugees who hail from Damascus and Rif Damascus, areas now declared “safe” by Danish authorities.
It is the only European country to have reached such a conclusion.
“I remember a lot of bad things from Syria. People died in front of me,” Sageda Salem, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee living in the southern Danish city of Odense, told Al Jazeera.
The mock travel campaign has sparked outrage
Danish anti-immigration activists are being sharply criticised after they put up mock travel adverts in Copenhagen telling Syrian refugees the good news that they can now return to sunny Syria .
The poster campaign, by the Danish wing of the far-Right Generation Identity group, came after Denmark became the first country in Europe to rule it safe for refugees to return to Syria, despite the human rights violations of the brutal Assad regime.
Michala Bendixen from the rights group Refugees Welcome Denmark called the group s posters cynical and prejudiced , adding that they exemplified a trend of immigrant-bashing in Denmark she witnessed every day on social media.
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