Shunned By The West, 10,000 Refugees Seek Asylum In Hong Kong

Behind Hong Kong’s glamorous facade, thousands of refugees quietly struggle to survive in one of the world’s most dynamic territories.

Zachary Senn
بواسطة Zachary Senn
A red taxi drives past tthe busy exterior of the Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong. These squalid, overcrowded towers house many of the territory's 10,000 asylum seekers. (Shadowproof / Zachary Senn)

Published in partnership with ShadowProof. The Chungking Mansions, where many of Hong Kong’s asylum seekers first land upon their arrival to the territory, are a place of brutality, thronging with desperately thin South Asian teenagers who look a decade older than their age, offering to sell you ‘something special’ around every corner — be it

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Refugees Held At US Detention Centers Go On Hunger Strike Over Thanksgiving Weekend

“There are grave injustices being committed, detentions spanning eight months, 10 months, a year, a year and a half, so in the end we are being told we have no rights and will be deported, with offensive words and gestures that make us feel worthless.”

John Vibes
بواسطة John Vibes
Housing for immigrant children and families.

(ANTIMEDIA) Over 100 refugees who are being held at various U.S. detainment facilities have gone on a hunger strike over the thanksgiving weekend, calling for an end to their prolonged detention and mass deportations that have been taking place recently. When refugees enter the U.S., there is a rigorous screening process that they must go through,

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US Program To Save Child Refugees Has Welcomed This Many: Zero

More than 5,400 minors from Central America applied to get in to US as refugees. All of them are still waiting.

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis
Immigration Overload Central American Gangs Q&A

A year after President Barack Obama launched a program to grant asylum to Central American children fleeing violence or seeking to reunite with family members, the statistics are in: not one child has made it to the U.S. through that initiative. New analysis by the New York Times published Thursday reveals that the Central American Minors

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American Claims Asylum In Canada Saying ‘Police Will Kill Me Because I’m Black’

Kyle Canty applies for refugee status claiming he risks brutality in the United States.

Telegraph
بواسطة Telegraph
Kyle Lydell Canty. Photo: CBS News

A black American man has applied for refugee status in Canada claiming he risks being killed by police in his home country because of his race. Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, filed a claim for asylum and told a hearing of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board that black people in America were "being exterminated at an alarming rate". To

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EU Parliament Votes For Dropped Charges, Asylum Protection For Snowden

Resolution passed by European Parliament Thursday calls on member states to prevent whistleblower’s extradition, rendition.

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos
A sticker calling for asylum for Edward Snowden seen in Berlin. (Photo: Tony Webster/flickr/cc)

The European Parliament passed a resolution Thursday urging its nations to afford NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden protection. Passed by a 285 to 281 vote, the resolution calls on EU member states to "drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in

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The World’s Largest Detention Center Is For Black Jews Seeking Asylum In Israel

Despite a court order demanding the release of hundreds of immigrants, Israel recently expanded the criteria under which refugees could be held at Holot Detention Center in the Negev Desert.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
African migrants stands inside Holot detention center as others protest outside against the detention center near Ktsiot the Negev Desert in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

JERUSALEM --- The recent release of 1,200 prisoners from a detention center in the Negev Desert is not a signal that Israel is rethinking its harsh treatment of refugees. Thousands of immigrants still face a choice between imprisonment and repatriation to their war-torn countries. Some 65,000 African refugees are believed to currently live in

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