migrants

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  • Paris under fire over plan to move homeless people out of the city for 2024 Olympic Games 2024-07-01 19:21

    French authorities accused of ‘social cleansing’ of migrants and homeless before Paris Olympics

    Just a day after the ceremonial lighting of the Paris 2024 Olympic flame in Greece on April 16, accompanied by oaths to friendship and solidarity, French authorities began evicting hundreds of migrants from France's largest squat in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Those evicted were encouraged to board buses that would take them to other parts of France.

  • Migrants 2024-06-18 21:57

    Moroccan authorities pushed asylum seekers into ‘death trap’

    Moroccan authorities took a series of fateful decisions that led to the deaths of dozens of asylum seekers attempting to scale the border fence into the Spanish north African territory of Melilla two years ago, survivors and an investigation by an NGO have claimed.

  • Greek coastguard 2024-06-17 19:41

    BBC report: Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths

    The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses said including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water.

  • UK migrants 2024-05-25 19:51

    Over 10,000 reach UK on small boats

    The number of people landing on England's southern beaches after making the dangerous Channel crossing fell by a third in 2023, but the latest numbers on a government website showed 10,170 arrived between January and May 25, up from 7,395 over the same period last year.

  • The grave of a baby 2023-12-08 22:09

    Revealed: More than 1,000 unmarked graves discovered along EU migration routes

    Refugees and migrants are being buried in unmarked graves across the European Union at a scale that is unprecedented outside of war.

  • “Migrants” 2023-07-31 19:15

    Iran’s “Migrants” to compete at Colombian film festival

    TEHRAN – “Migrants” by Iranian director Masud Ahmadi will be screened at the main section of the 10th edition of the International Film Festival for Human Rights Colombia, which will be held from August 10 to 17.

  • Immigrants: uninvited guests 2022-12-17 19:33

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    Immigrants: uninvited guests

    TEHRAN – Migrants are uninvited guests who often leave their homeland due to coercion caused by internal, and political tensions, or in the most optimistic case, to acquire science or technology, in the meantime, 1.8 million Iranians also immigrated.

  • A troupe from Baneh performs the play “Suffering of the Water” on migrants drowning in the Mediterranean in Zrebar Lake in Marivan on October 30, 2021. (IRNA)  2021-10-31 18:24

    Aquatic performance shares sad story of migrants drowning in Mediterranean 

    TEHRAN – An Iranian Kurdish troupe has performed a play in Zrebar Lake in Marivan, depicting the sufferings of the migrants drowning in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe in the hope of a better life.

  • Haiti migrants 2021-10-01 17:54

    Resignation exposes Biden's asylum policy failure

    TEHRAN - The resignation of the U.S. special envoy to Haiti in protest against the administration of President's Joe Biden immigration policy speaks volumes about the American President's campaign pledge to reverse his predecessor's "cruel" policies on asylum seekers.