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Ukrainian Asylum Seekers Offered Benefits Not Afforded To Other Nationalities
The Icelandic government has been diligent in supporting asylum seekers from Ukraine, both adults and children alike, but this includes affording them benefits not granted to asylum seekers from other countries. An official from the Red Cross tells Vísir he has difficulty…
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Iceland Increases Its Contribution To Humanitarian Aid
According to Morgunblaðið, The Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced that Iceland will provide an additional 25 million ISK in humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. The statement was given yesterday at the United Nations pledge conference by Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, the Minister of Foreign…
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From Afghanistan To Iceland: An Activist Seeks To Help His Homeland
Sign Sayed’s petition at change.org and learn more about his organisation, Samstaðan on Instagram. On the morning of August 19th, Sayed Khanoghli, an Afghan refugee and Chairman of the Youth at Amnesty International, watched a video from Afghanistan. It showed a young…
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Disappointment, Unanswered Questions Follow Gov’t Afghan Refugee Announcement
Yesterday, over a week after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the Icelandic government announced that the country would be accepting up to 120 Afghan refugees. The plan of action is complicated, and has left many Afghans in Iceland disappointed. At…
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Demonstrators Implore Government To Rescue Afghans, Gov’t To Accept 120
A group of about two dozen demonstrators, most of them Afghans who live in Iceland, turned out in front of Parliament yesterday afternoon to implore the Icelandic government to rescue as many Afghans as possible from the country, RÚV reports. Many of…
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Iceland Still Mulling Over How To Accept Afghan Refugees
As larger countries such as the UK and Canada have already pledged to accept a set number of refugees fleeing Afghanistan, the matter is still in committee in Iceland. Following the fall of Kabul, Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir was asked directly whether…
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Refugee Urges Iceland To Save Afghan People
An Afghan refugee has urged the Icelandic government to take action regarding the emerging humanitarian crisis in his home country. In the lead up to the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan next month, the Taliban—an Islamic group which aims to impose…
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Hazara Asylum Seeker Granted 4-Year Residence Permit
Ramazan Fayazi, a young Hazara man who sought asylum in Iceland from Afghanistan, was last week granted a four-year residence permit. Grapevine learned of the news from Ramazan, who told us he was informed of the Directorate of Immigration’s decision when he…
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Icelander In The Crew Of Oscar Nominated ‘The Breadwinner’
Academy Awards night is almost upon us, and as the evening draws near hints about the nominees, both artists and movies, begin to pop up on the Internet. No Icelandic movie has been nominated this year—go figure! However, Icelanders are notoriously good…
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Afghan Asylum Seeker, Facing Deportation, On Hunger Strike
Abdolhamid Rahmani, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, is facing an impending deportation to Greece, despite having been extorted into accepting asylum in that country after a lengthy imprisonment. The Grapevine spoke with Abdolhamid, with the help of an interpreter, this afternoon. Abdolhamid’s…
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Afghan Family Who Fled Taliban To Be Deported
A family of seven, who fled persecution from the Taliban for a better life in Iceland, will be deported to Germany any day now, where there is a strong likelihood that they will be deported back to Afghanistan. A petition is now…
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Afghan Mother & Daughter Get Second Chance For Asylum
The Immigration Appeals Board has ordered the Directorate of Immigration (UTL) to review the case of Torpikey Farrash and Maryam Raísi, a mother and daughter who fled persecution in Afghanistan some four years ago, and were originally denied asylum in Iceland on…
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“The Icelandic People Are My Hope Now” – Afghan Mother & Daughter Still In Peril
A group of Icelanders arrived at the Ministry of the Interior today to hand over a petition of some 3,300 signatures, all from Icelanders calling upon the Minister of the Interior to halt the impending deportation of an Afghan mother and daughter.…
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“We Just Want An Ordinary Life”
Torpikey Farrash and Maryam Raísi, a mother and daughter from Afghanistan, are hoping against the odds to fulfill one simple dream – to lead ordinary lives in Iceland – but they are currently facing deportation. As reported, the two were subject to…
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Petition Underway To Save Afghan Family From Deportation
An Afghan mother and daughter who have been on the run for 15 years have been denied asylum in Iceland. They face deportation, but a petition is underway demanding the Directorate of Immigration (UTL) grant them asylum. Fréttatíminn reports that Maryam Raísi…
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Show Of Solidarity In Iceland Today For Murdered Afghan Woman
Iceland’s Afghan community is calling upon everyone to meet at Reykjavík City Hall today at 16:00, to take part in A Moment of Silence for a woman who was viciously murdered in Afghanistan last week. The woman in question, Farkhunda, was beaten…
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Editorial: COUNTRY OF CONSTANT SORROW
Didn’t the mujaheddin once appear on our screens along with the West’s finest, Rambo and James Bond, liberating the freedom loving Afghanis from the evil Russians? Just as the Berlin blockade brought us a change in bad guys in 1948, when the…
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DRESSING FOR THE OCCASION:
Iceland has no army. But Icelanders are carrying arms in Afghanistan. “Are you going to call the documentary ‘The Secret Army’?” One of the guys said jokingly as he and the other Icelanders switched from pistols to machine guns at the shooting…