Asylum seekers to limits: Federal Government ignores human rights warnings!

Asylum seekers to limits: Federal Government ignores human rights warnings!

Deutschland - The Federal Government plans, despite a recent judgment of the Berlin Administrative Court, to continue to adhere to the rejection of asylum seekers at the German borders. This decision ensures considerable political controversy and raises legal concerns. As ots.at reported, ordered these rejections a month ago, which also affect asylum seekers. Critics, including the German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR), express sharp criticism of this practice that is supposed to violate EU law and basic human rights.

In the opinion of the DIMR, the practice of rejections subjects the procedure to determine the responsible EU member state for asylum procedures. In addition, the federal government cannot refer to an emergency, since the required requirements are missing in Germany. According to ots.at , EU law provides specific measures to respond to high asylum application numbers that have not been applied by Germany. The rejection also violates the prohibition of refoulement under international law, which requires protection against persecution and inhuman treatment.

human rights and the EU asylum reform

These developments come into a critical context against the background of the current discussions about the EU asylum reform. According to Institute for Human Rights are violated and restricted in several EU member states. This includes access to a fair asylum procedure as well as a decent recording and care. Reports on violent returns from asylum seekers without checking their reasons for asylum are alarming and drawing an idea of an intensifying location at the external borders of the EU.

The accommodation of asylum seekers in prison -like camps, which also affect families and children, is particularly worrying. People with traumatic escape experiences need safe places to rest as well as legal and psychological support. The planned reforms do not remedy the situation for existing grievances, but are removed from basic human rights principles. The desired accelerated asylum procedures at the EU external borders initially accept those seeking protection as not entered, even though they have entered European soil.

system and challenges

In addition, the ambiguity of the implementation of entry bans, without closed recording centers or restrictions on freedom, leads to a precarious situation. Families with children and vulnerable refugees are not excluded from deprivation of liberty, which means a systematic deprivation of liberty based on an asylum application and contradicts the Geneva Refugee Convention.

Experiences from the past show that a decent admission and access to legal advice in reciprocal bearings are often not guaranteed. The EU Interior Minister has expanded the concept of the safe third countries, which means that asylum applications can be rejected if protection seekers enter the third countries that are securely declared. The requirements for the classification of these states are reduced, with uncertain regions or groups of people being often ignored.