Étiqueté : asylum

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French lady faces charges for ‘helping’ asylum seekers

Martine Landry said she did nothing wrong. In fact, the 73-year-old human rights activist said she would do it again. « I’m going to continue, » Landry told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview from Menton, a town in southeastern France near the border with Italy. « I know I’m within my rights and I want to assert…

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PNG police enter Australia’s Manus Island asylum camp

Police in Papua New Guinea have entered a decommissioned prison camp on Manus Island, trying to evict refugees who are refusing to leave. About 50 of the camp’s inhabitants left in buses, but about 330 others said they were too afraid to go outside the former Australian-run facility, fearing attacks by local people. Police and…