Finland. Irakier: ”We demand that the Finnish government speed up the processing of our applications and grant us asylum.”

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Irakilaiset pelkäävät käännytysten aaltoa – ”omatkaan ministerit eivät uskalla tuoda perheitään Irakiin” (Irakier befarar en utvisningsvåg – ”inte ens våra egna ministrar vågar ha sina familjer i Irak”).

Över 300 asylsökande som väntar på svar på sina asylansökningar, hade undertecknat en petition där de kräver skydd.

Här kan man läsa deras skrivelse på engelska. De har all rätt att skriva, informera, förklara och vädja, men att, som de gör i slutet av skrivelsen, gång på gång ”demand”, det vill säga ”kräva”, är givetvis inte okej. De söker skydd i ett främmande land som har att bedöma deras asyl- eller skyddsskäl (eller brist på sådana) och de kan givetvis inte kräva något annat än det de redan får: tak över huvudet, mat för dagen och att finländska myndigheter – efter noggrann utredning och på grundval av varje enskild persons historia – fattar beslut i enlighet med de kriterier som stipuleras i finländsk lag. Det blir direkt osmakligt med uttalanden som dessa:

We demand that the Finnish immigration service base their judgement of security in Iraq on the truth that is presented by the Iraqi refugees and the human rights organisation’s reports.

Och:

We demand that the Finnish government speed up the processing of our applications and grant us asylum.

EASO Quarterly Asylum Report Q1 2014

Ur EASO Quarterly Asylum Report Q1 2014

Germany, France and Sweden were the main countries of destination, receiving 55% of all asylum applicants registered in the EU+.

Germany and Sweden continued to receive more than half of Syrian applicants (53%).

In Q1, Germany, France and Sweden were the main countries of destination, receiving 55 % of all asylum applicants registered in the EU+, with France becoming the second main receiving country.

Germany (21.285, 23 % of the total), France (16. 685, 18 % of the total), and Sweden (10.035, 11 % of the total) recorded the highest number of first instance decisions in Q1 2014 and produced more than half of all decisions issued in the EU+.

In Sweden (79 % of 10,035 = 7.928) more than half of the decisions issued during Q1 2014 at first instance were positive. In Denmark 51 % of 1.650 = 841 decisions were positive at first instance, in Norway 67 % of 2.130 = 1.427 and in Finland 57 % of 550 = 313 decisions were positive at first instance.

Germany, France and Sweden received together 87 % of all the applications made by Western Balkan nationals in Q1 2014.

Germany, France and Sweden are also the ones coping with the largest caseload of WB applicants registered at the end of March 2014.

As observed in 2013, during Q1 2014, the protection rates issued to Afghan applicants across EU+ countries differed significantly. Italy, Switzerland, France and Sweden were the only countries granting protection rates above the EU+ average of 63 %.

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