Published : 27-05-2021
The Danish migration authorities have refused to renew the visa of a Palestinian refugee woman displaced from Yarmouk Camp.
Speaking with AGPS, Palestinian refugee woman Rehab Kasem said the judge of the grievance court ruled for deporting her from Denmark in a month after he claimed that Damascus is a safe zone.
Rehab obtained the Swedish citizenship in 2009 before she applied for humanitarian asylum. She said migration authorities failed to take into consideration the fact that she was displaced from Palestine following the Israeli invasion of 1948 and injured by chemical gas discharged by the Syrian regime.
She added that her house in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus, was completely destroyed in the warfare. She fled the camp following a deadly offensive launched by the Syrian regime and their Russian partners in 2012. She had taken shelter at a relative’s house in Jober. In August 2013, the Syrian regime showered the area with nerve gas and chemical weapons. She sustained a 50% lung damage and severe breathing disorders.
Over recent weeks, thousands of protesters have turned up for demonstrations and protests in 25 cities across Denmark to say no to the Danish government's withdrawal of residence permits for Syrian refugees.
The protesters urged the Danish government to immediately stop plans to withdraw Syrian residence permits, after hundreds of Syrian refugees, including children, have been told by the Danish Immigration Service to return to Syria, assessing that Damascus and the surrounding areas are safe to return to. At least 39 Syrians have received their final assessment in the Refugee Board - and are now in a deportation position.
But Syria is far from being a safe country. Although military hostilities have diminished in most of the country, Syrian citizens continue to risk persecution and human rights abuses - including in Damascus and the surrounding area, where horrific human rights violations, extremely arbitrary arrests and extensive torture laboratories have been spotted.
Those who have been sent back to Syria are routinely subjected to interrogation by Syrian security forces. The security forces are known and notorious for being behind arbitrary detention, torture and murder. Wanting to send people back to such a risk is contrary to Denmark's human rights obligations.
The Danish migration authorities have refused to renew the visa of a Palestinian refugee woman displaced from Yarmouk Camp.
Speaking with AGPS, Palestinian refugee woman Rehab Kasem said the judge of the grievance court ruled for deporting her from Denmark in a month after he claimed that Damascus is a safe zone.
Rehab obtained the Swedish citizenship in 2009 before she applied for humanitarian asylum. She said migration authorities failed to take into consideration the fact that she was displaced from Palestine following the Israeli invasion of 1948 and injured by chemical gas discharged by the Syrian regime.
She added that her house in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus, was completely destroyed in the warfare. She fled the camp following a deadly offensive launched by the Syrian regime and their Russian partners in 2012. She had taken shelter at a relative’s house in Jober. In August 2013, the Syrian regime showered the area with nerve gas and chemical weapons. She sustained a 50% lung damage and severe breathing disorders.
Over recent weeks, thousands of protesters have turned up for demonstrations and protests in 25 cities across Denmark to say no to the Danish government's withdrawal of residence permits for Syrian refugees.
The protesters urged the Danish government to immediately stop plans to withdraw Syrian residence permits, after hundreds of Syrian refugees, including children, have been told by the Danish Immigration Service to return to Syria, assessing that Damascus and the surrounding areas are safe to return to. At least 39 Syrians have received their final assessment in the Refugee Board - and are now in a deportation position.
But Syria is far from being a safe country. Although military hostilities have diminished in most of the country, Syrian citizens continue to risk persecution and human rights abuses - including in Damascus and the surrounding area, where horrific human rights violations, extremely arbitrary arrests and extensive torture laboratories have been spotted.
Those who have been sent back to Syria are routinely subjected to interrogation by Syrian security forces. The security forces are known and notorious for being behind arbitrary detention, torture and murder. Wanting to send people back to such a risk is contrary to Denmark's human rights obligations.
