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Manan in Dusseldorf. She hides her face as many in her hometown do not know the reason she is in Germany. Photo: Aren Melikyan/OC Media.

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Seeking asylum and a cure in Germany

by Aren Melikyan

•7 min read

Many Armenian citizens with debilitating and life-threatening health problems that they cannot afford to treat in their homeland look to Germany as their last chance for treatment and recovery — despite the high chance of deportation. The small public square in front of Dusseldorf’s main train station evokes feelings of nostalgia for the 42-year-old Armenian woman standing in front of it. Inga can’t help but compare everything she sees with her hometown of Gyumri, a city in the north of Armen

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A Chechen refugee Poland wants to give up to Russia

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•9 min read

Mass executions, murders, abductions, rape, torture, intimidation, extortion, forged criminal proceedings, monstrous corruption — this is what Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya looks like today. The Russian republic is completely disconnected from the Russian legal system — with the consent of the Russian authorities. This article is a partner post written by Małgorzata Łojkowska. The original version first appeared in Polish on Polityka, on 6 July 2019. Nurmagomed did not know if he would mak

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Chechen dissident YouTuber denied asylum in Poland

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a popular Chechen YouTuber and an ardent critic of the Chechen government has been denied political asylum in Poland. Abdurakhmanov told OC Media that his request was turned down ‘based on the recommendation of Poland’s Internal Security Agency — who identified me as a threat to their country’. ‘Of course, they are not explaining why exactly I am a threat’, he added. Abdurakhmanov wrote on his Telegram channel on Thursday that the Polish authorities had ‘declined t

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A quest for safe haven — fleeing homophobia to Georgia

by Dato Parulava

•8 min read

Despite reports of violence and discrimination against queer people often hitting the news, for Wagdy (Egypt), Riri (Azerbaijan), and Misha (Nigeria), Georgia represents a safe place where they can finally be themselves. While some find a new life in Georgia free from fear, the country’s opaque asylum procedures threaten to send some of them back, their presence deemed ‘contradictory to the interests of the country’. Wagdy — the burden of a gay Egyptian apostate It was 02:00, there wa

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Georgia’s refugee minister says Turkey’s prisons of ‘European standard’ after concern over extradition

by OC Media

•3 min read

‘Gülen-linked’ school manager Mustafa Emre Çabuk will appeal in court after the being refused political asylum by Georgia’s Ministry of Refugees. Çabuk was detained in Tbilisi on after Turkey requested that the authorities extradite him. His lawyer says that the ministry’s decision was illegal and unfair, as the evidence ‘clearly shows the threats Çabuk faces’ in Turkey. Minister says Turkey’s prisons ‘of European standards’ During a talk-show on Imedi TV on 7 July, Georgia’s Minister of