UA: 29/12 Index: EUR 50/001/2012 Issue Date: 31 January 2012

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Somali and Eritrean asylum-seekers and migrants are on hunger strike in protest against their illegal detention at a Migrant Accommodation Centre in Western Ukraine. They, and detainees from other countries supporting them have been threatened and beaten and are at risk of other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 340/11 Index: AMR 41/002/2012 Issue Date: 11 January 2012

Seventy-one members of a Guatemalan community who had sought refuge in Tabasco state, Mexico, have been detained by Mexican authorities and taken to a migrant detention centre. Over 100 members of the community remain in Tabasco state. Those detained include children, and some families have apparently been divided. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 16/11 Index: AMR 41/088/2011 Issue Date: 13 December 2011

Staff, volunteers and migrants at the San Juan Diego migrants’ shelter in Lecheria, Mexico state, are at risk of attack after local community members held a protest outside the shelter and demanded its closure. This follows a pattern of intimidation and harassment against the shelter. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 245/11 Index: EUR 45/020/2011 Issue Date: 21 October 2011

The residents of Dale Farm, Essex, UK, left their homes en masse on 20 October, in order to avoid confrontation with bailiffs contracted by Basildon Council to carry out a forced eviction. The eviction will now proceed, and is expected to last a few weeks. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 34/11 Index: ASA 25/013/2011 Issue Date: 04 October 2011

Migrants Trade Union’s (MTU) President, Michel Catuira, had his appeal against attempts by Korean authorities to deport him upheld on 15 September. Seoul’s Administrative Court ruled that the Korea Immigration Service’s (KIS) efforts to deport him were in violation of South Korean and international human rights law. The KIS appealed this decision on 30 September and continue to deny Michel Catuira a visa. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 91/10 Index: MDE 25/004/2010 Issue Date: 13 September 2011

Seventeen Indian migrant workers who were sentenced to death in March 2010 for the murder of a Pakistani national in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have had their death sentences revoked on appeal. They are expected to be deported to India in the coming weeks. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 135/11 Index: AMR 41/026/2011 Issue Date: 10 May 2011

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Father José Guadalupe Valdés, who runs the migrants’ shelter, Albergue Frontera Digna, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila state, on Mexico’s northern border, and the volunteers and migrants at the shelter, are at risk after a member of staff was attacked and threatened on 9 May. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU UA: 97/11 Index: AMR 41/024/2011 Issue Date: 04 May 2011

Migrants’ Rights Defenders working at the Beato Juan Bautista Scalabrini Migrants’ Rights Centre in Tamaulipas state, northern Mexico, are at risk of further attacks and kidnapping following a threatening phone call. Their lives are at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 121/11 Index: EUR 30/009/2011 Issue Date: 21 April 2011

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Residents in at least three unauthorized Roma settlements in Rome have been evicted, continuing what seems to be a wave of forced evictions in the Italian capital. According to local NGOs, more than 30 settlements have been evicted since the beginning of April. There are fears that residents in other Roma settlements in the city are at imminent risk of eviction. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 72/11 Index: EUR 50/005/2011 Issue Date: 15 March 2011

Eleven Afghan citizens are at imminent risk of deportation from Ukraine to Afghanistan, without any opportunity to challenge their deportation, including on asylum or other international protection grounds. Three of them have self-harmed in protest. [ Lire la suite » ]