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Exclusief: Raad van Europa houdt vrijdag een bijeenkomst in Moldavië, waarbij het mensenrechtenorgaan van plan is de erkenning van het recht van landen om grenzen te controleren te verklaren Europe live – laatste updates Europese ministers zullen deze week plannen bespreken om duizenden afgewezen asielzoekers naar hubs in derde landen te sturen, heeft het hoofd van het mensenrechtenorgaan van het continent de Guardian verteld. Alain Berset, secretaris-generaal van de Raad van Europa, zei dat discussies over de verwijdering van mensen die via irreguliere routes in Europa zijn aangekomen, "op multilateraal niveau" zullen plaatsvinden tijdens een bijeenkomst in Moldavië op vrijdag. Lees verder...

Dozen people arrive under new deal but legal challenges expected with process criticised for ‘dehumanising process’A flight carrying people being deported from the US has landed in Uganda, as Donald Trump’s administration pushes on with its strategy of expelling migrants to countries they have no ties to.The deported people would stay in the east African country as “a transition phase for potential onward transmission to other countries”, an unnamed senior Ugandan government official told Reuters. Continue reading...

Central American country to receive up to 25 migrants a day expelled as part of Trump’s immigration crackdownSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Costa Rican government has agreed to receive up to 25 deported migrants a week from the United States, the latest deal in the Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to deport scores of people to “third countries”.With the new agreement, Costa Rica seeks a closer alliance with Donald Trump’s government, which has been securing cooperation from other Central American countries in accepting deportees from other nations who have been detained by US immigration agents. Continue reading...

Two deportees sent to Eswatini were from Somalia, one was from Sudan and another was from TanzaniaThe government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of the Trump administration’s multimillion-dollar deal with the small African nation.Now a total of 19 deportees from the US have been sent to Eswatini even as they hail from other countries, amid the Trump administration’s continued anti-immigrant crackdown and changes to immigration policy. Continue reading...