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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9838

12 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Amnesty denounces risk of expulsion for hundreds of migrants held in Lampedusa

Brussels, 11/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Amnesty International has announced that over 1,600 migrants currently held on the Italian island of Lampedusa are at risk of being forcibly returned to their home countries. “All those on the island are at risk of being returned without access to a fair procedure for examining their asylum claims or the opportunity to challenge their deportation”, the NGO warned on 6 February. Some 150 migrants on Lampedusa have already been returned to their...

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