May be of interest for some that UNHCR just released (as of 30 of August 2018) new guidelines for assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan. 'UNHCR considers that an IFA/IRA is generally not available in Kabul' (p.10). (IFA/IRA = Internal Flight Alternative/Internal Relocation Alternative). See here On that, Finland decided to stop deportations to Afghanistan and to free all Afghani detained since there are no grounds for detention -at the moment. See on Yle news here. What about the many European states such as France, still detaining Afghan people? During the daily raids in camps in Calais several Afghan people are regularly controlled and placed in Coquelles administrative detention center (CRA, in French), where they can be held up to 45 days awaiting for a decision to free them or a deportation to take place. Not to talk about the many deportations under the Dublin agreement to third countries- where the person is identified as having passed through- and that can end up in deportations to the country of origin. See here. Do we have to wait for "new" "official" guidelines to tell us that other countries, like Sudan, aren't "safe" neither? And even, to tell us [...]
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