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France has been criticised for deporting Chechen refugee Magamoed Gadaev to Russia despite several court rulings saying he should not be expelled, human rights groups said. In 2010, Gadaev fled to Poland from Chechenya, Russia’s Muslim-majority southern region, where he served a prison sentence for alleged ties with separatists. He says he was tortured in prison. Gadaev was granted asylum in Poland before moving to France, where he became a witness in prominent torture cases involving Chechen security forces. "Due to the persecution he has suffered in the past and his role as a witness in c...

News News Strasbourg 15 February 2021 Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF A delegation of the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) carried out an evaluation visit to France from 8 to 12 February 2021 as part of the third evaluation round of the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. The focus of this evaluation round of the Convention is on traf...

The family during Mass in a Catholic church in Tehran. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP) When Ali (not his real name) went to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) for his interview, he knew that he would be questioned about his personal history, particularly about his conversion to Christianity in Iran. He was asked to name a scripture passage that was important to him. He chose the Passion of Jesus Christ. "How did this passage resonate with you?" the protection officer asked. "What attracted me most is that a human being, even at the moment of being tortu...

UNHCR's IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness   © UNHCR UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes Iceland’s accession to the United Nations Statelessness Conventions, key international treaties to counter statelessness. “We welcome Iceland’s accession, which brings the world one step closer towards ending statelessness,” said Pascale Moreau, UNHCR Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe. Europe is home to more than 500,000 stateless people.  The total number of stateless people globally remains unknown. UNHCR reports on some 4.2 million stateless people in 79 countries in the wor...

Honduras: UN and IACHR Experts Urge Immediate Adoption of Law to Protect Internally Displaced People Format The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, welcomed the official submission of the Bill for the Prevention, Care, and Protection of Internally Displaced People to the National Congress of Honduras on October 14, 2020. In view of the current context in the region, which is marked by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, the two organizations praised t...