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Renowned investigative journalist Nuri Kino's and his colleagues at Swedish Radio have aired a series of reports on Iraqi refugees in Sweden.
On October 29 they reported that nearly 10,000 refugees are hiding in Sweden. In front of the reporting Kino made interviews with refugees who said that they rather live wanted by the police, changing hiding places frequently, then return to Iraq. The refugees who many or Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) are pushed to work for 4 dollars per hour to be able to survive with no grants at all. Since they have been refused also when they appealed to the court they are seen as criminals and the police are looking for them to be deported to Iraq.
Maha is one of them, she says "I'm moving with my three children from place to place all the time to avoid being caught by the police. But I don't have a choice, if they return me to Iraq I might get killed since I used to work as human right activist with focus on children and women rights. The Swedish court has made mistakes in my application, according to the law do I have the right to be protected and stay?"
On November 2 Nuri Kino and his colleague Tove Svenonius published a report revealing gross errors at the Swedish court of Migration in Stockholm. The reporters analyzed nine verdicts from a single day and found several errors. Swedish Radio then asked five asylum experts to also investigate the court decisions. All five are convinced that the process is arbitrary, since they found the same reasons can be used to grant or deny asylum for refugees.
The recent reports have led to discussions and debates between members of the Swedish parliament.
"Im very pleased that we finally published the new research we made," says Nuri Kino, "but it is very hard to see people suffer so much and I truly hope that the reporting will help them so they have to stop living under inhuman circumstances in a country where we claim that we are fighting for human rights."
Links to reports:
Sweden May Have Illegally Deported Iraqi Refugees
Assyrian Refugees Expelled From Sweden -- Fleeing Again
Assyrian Refugees in Sweden Caught in Political Struggle
Fler flyktingar lever gömda i Sverige
Migrationsdomstolen tillbakavisar kritik
Sverige utvisar förföljda minoriteter
On October 29 they reported that nearly 10,000 refugees are hiding in Sweden. In front of the reporting Kino made interviews with refugees who said that they rather live wanted by the police, changing hiding places frequently, then return to Iraq. The refugees who many or Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) are pushed to work for 4 dollars per hour to be able to survive with no grants at all. Since they have been refused also when they appealed to the court they are seen as criminals and the police are looking for them to be deported to Iraq.
Maha is one of them, she says "I'm moving with my three children from place to place all the time to avoid being caught by the police. But I don't have a choice, if they return me to Iraq I might get killed since I used to work as human right activist with focus on children and women rights. The Swedish court has made mistakes in my application, according to the law do I have the right to be protected and stay?"
On November 2 Nuri Kino and his colleague Tove Svenonius published a report revealing gross errors at the Swedish court of Migration in Stockholm. The reporters analyzed nine verdicts from a single day and found several errors. Swedish Radio then asked five asylum experts to also investigate the court decisions. All five are convinced that the process is arbitrary, since they found the same reasons can be used to grant or deny asylum for refugees.
The recent reports have led to discussions and debates between members of the Swedish parliament.
"Im very pleased that we finally published the new research we made," says Nuri Kino, "but it is very hard to see people suffer so much and I truly hope that the reporting will help them so they have to stop living under inhuman circumstances in a country where we claim that we are fighting for human rights."
Links to reports:
Sweden May Have Illegally Deported Iraqi Refugees
Assyrian Refugees Expelled From Sweden -- Fleeing Again
Assyrian Refugees in Sweden Caught in Political Struggle
Fler flyktingar lever gömda i Sverige
Migrationsdomstolen tillbakavisar kritik
Sverige utvisar förföljda minoriteter