Published : 16-11-2018
Activists and NGOs have launched calls for a mass rally on Friday, November 16, outside of the UN office in Vienna to voice support for Palestinian and Arab refugees detained in Thailand.
Activists urged the international community, NGOs, the League of Arab States, and the EU to take urgent steps in order to pressurize the Thai authorities to release detained refugees, provide them with legal and physical protection, and backtrack on deporting over 600 Palestinian refugees, among them 50 from Syria, for overstaying their visas.
Palestinian refugee families, along with migrants from Iraq and Syria, have been at the risk of refoulement in Thailand after authorities tightened the noose around illegal migrants who overstayed their residence permits and have, thus, been considered as lawbreakers rather than legitimate asylum seekers.
Activists and NGOs have launched calls for a mass rally on Friday, November 16, outside of the UN office in Vienna to voice support for Palestinian and Arab refugees detained in Thailand.
Activists urged the international community, NGOs, the League of Arab States, and the EU to take urgent steps in order to pressurize the Thai authorities to release detained refugees, provide them with legal and physical protection, and backtrack on deporting over 600 Palestinian refugees, among them 50 from Syria, for overstaying their visas.
Palestinian refugee families, along with migrants from Iraq and Syria, have been at the risk of refoulement in Thailand after authorities tightened the noose around illegal migrants who overstayed their residence permits and have, thus, been considered as lawbreakers rather than legitimate asylum seekers.
