Revelations of right-wing extremist activities among police and security forces raised concerns about the protection of minorities’ human rights. The authorities were urged by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance to investigate police racial profiling. The authorities failed to...

On 23 July 2008, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, repealed its decision to forcibly return Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah to Eritrea. Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah has been allowed to enter Germany and apply for asylum without risk of expulsion.

The German authorities are preparing to forcibly return asylum-seeker Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah to Eritrea. If returned, he is at risk of arbitrary arrest, incommunicado detention, torture or other ill-treatment for evasion of compulsory military service and for seeking asylum abroad, which the...

On 14 May 2008, German immigration authorities forcibly returned Eritrean nationals Yonas Haile Mehari and Petros Aforki Mulugeta to Eritrea. Neither man has been seen since they arrived in the capital, Asmara. Amnesty International believes they were detained at Asmara airport upon arrival, and...

On 16 November a Slovenian court ruled against the transfer of Ali Berisha and his family to Germany, where they would be at risk of being removed to Kosovo. The court annulled two decrees from the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior which had stated that the family should be deported, and stated...

Ali Berisha (m), aged about 36, his wife Mahi (aged 36) and their four children, Dem (m), aged 8, Egzon (m), aged 6, Egzona (f), aged 4 and Haxhi (m), aged 3, all members of the Romani/Ashkali/Egyptiani (RAE) minority community, are at imminent risk of being forcibly removed from Slovenia to...

Following numerous appeals against the forcible return of Rustam Alimkhanov to the Russian Federation, he has been given six months leave to remain in Germany. This is so that he can receive treatment, following medical reports that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is a suicide...

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Rustam Alimkhanov, an ethnic Chechen whose asylum application has been dismissed by the German authorities as “manifestly unfounded”. He is at imminent risk of being forcibly returned to Russia, where he would be at serious risk of torture or...

On 20 March, Hussain Daoud (m), aged 31, a Syrian Kurd who had been in detention since December 2000, was sentenced by the Supreme State Security Court to two years in prison following an unfair trial. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience detained solely for exercising...

On the morning of 18 February, the German authorities forcibly returned Sulim Chadisov (m) aged 24, to Moscow. His fate and whereabouts are currently unknown. Nineteen other ethnic Chechens remain at risk of forcible return from Germany to Russia. Amnesty International is closely monitoring their...

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Sulim Chadisov and up to 19 other ethnic Chechens, who are at risk of being forcibly returned to Russia from Germany following their failed attempts to gain refugee status. Should they be returned, they would be at risk of discrimination,...

A representative of the German Embassy in Syria was reportedly allowed to visit Hussain Daoud in Sednaya Prison on 26 June. According to the Syrian authorities, Hussain Daoud has not been charged as investigations are still underway.

Hussain Daoud, an asylum seeker who was forcibly returned to Syria, has been held incommunicado since he was arrested by Syrian security forces. He has reportedly been tortured, and Amnesty International is concerned for his safety.