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MP Speaks Mistruths About Asylum Seekers, Deportee Might Return To Iceland
Some more developments have arisen in the wake of a mass deportation of people seeking international protection in Iceland, which has prompted strong public condemnation. As reported, all of these people were rounded up by police under cover of night and have…
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Asylum Seekers Rounded Up, Arrested En Masse, And Deported To Greece
A group of asylum seekers from Iraq and Palestine were arrested en masse, three of them placed in custody at Hólmsheiði prison, and then were taken by bus with a heavy police presence to Keflavík International Airport to be deported to Greece.…
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Government Still Preparing To Deport About 200 People, Including Families & Wheelchair User
While the government has reduced its numbers of planned deportations from about 300 to 200, many of them are still intended to be sent to Greece, Iraq, and Nigeria, including families and at least one man who uses a wheelchair. [su_pullquote]If you…
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Deportations To Greece In Contravention Of Law, Red Cross Says
The Icelandic Red Cross has issued a detailed report (.pdf) citing numerous sources that concludes, as has been done many times before, that deporting people to Greece, and children in particular, will send them to a life lived on the street with…
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Numerous Objections Raised As Iceland Prepares To Deport Hundreds
The Icelandic government is preparing to deport some 300 people from the country who applied for international protection in Iceland over two years ago. A great many of these of these people will be sent to Greece on spurious grounds and with…
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Syrian Family, Including Pregnant Mother And Young Child, Face Deportation
A Syrian family, comprised of a father, pregnant mother and two-year-old child, have been informed by the Directorate of Immigration (ÚTL) that their case file for international protection in Iceland will not even be examined, and they will be deported to Greece,…
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One Hospitalised, Other Deported After Violent Arrest At Immigration Centre
Of the two Palestinian men who were violently arrested last Tuesday at the immigration office at Bæjarhraun 18, one has since been deported to Greece, and the other was hospitalised from his injuries at the hands of police. Deportations to Greece remain…
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Four More Palestinian Refugees Evicted
The Grapevine has been informed that four more Palestinian refugees have been evicted by immigration authorities for refusing to assist in their own deportations to Greece. They are reportedly in their 20s, originally from Gaza, and have all suffered the well-documented abuses…
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Demonstrators Attempt Conversation With Justice Minister At Open House, Are Denied
A small group of demonstrators, who peacefully attended an open house of Minister of Justice Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, on the occasion of her running in the primaries for the Indepednence Party, were met with a decidedly cold reception and asked to leave…
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Red Cross Criticises Refugee Treatment; Immigration Directorate Says Their Hands Are Tied
In light of recent reports on the treatment of refugees in Iceland, the Red Cross has offered harsh criticisms of the Directorate of Immigration (ÚTL) and contends that some of their practices may even be illegal. For their part, ÚTL says they…
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VIDEO & PHOTOS: Refugees And Supporters Demonstrate Against Deportations To Greece
Some 50 people assembled in front of Parliament yesterday to peacefully protest against deportations; in particular, to Greece. Many of those who attended were refugees themselves who face deportation to a country widely criticised by international organisations for their inhumane treatment of…
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VIDEO & PHOTOS: Asylum Seekers Implore Iceland To Let Them Stay
Roughly two dozen asylum seekers, nearly all of them facing deportation to Greece, met at Hlemmur square in downtown Reykjavík this morning and from there, marched to Parliament and then back to Reykjavík police headquarters. All of them want to be able…
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Asylum Seeker From Gaza Facing Deportation To Greece
Mohammed Alsweirki, a 26-year-old man originally from Gaza, has been living in Iceland for six and a half months and is seeking asylum. However, he faces deportation to Greece despite a rampant coronavirus pandemic in that country, despite requiring medical assistance that…
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Hunger-Striking Iranian Asylum Seeker Deported Without Notice, Lawyer Never Notified
Amin Ghayszadeh, an asylum seeker from Iran who had been on a hunger strike since August 23rd, was suddenly arrested Sunday evening and deported yesterday, Fréttablaðið reports, without even his lawyer being alerted to the arrest. As reported, Amin left Iran five…
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Iranian Asylum Seeker On Hunger Strike, Faces Deportation To Greece
Amin Ghayszadeh is on his 13th day of his hunger strike, and faces deportation to Greece, a country often cited as one of the worst for refugees. A petition is currently being circulated, imploring immigration authorities to reconsider the deportation decision. Amin…
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The Peacemaker: The Legacy of Haukur Hilmarsson
It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time when Icelanders adamantly believed that protesting was just not something they do. Sure, there were riots when Parliament voted to join NATO in 1949, but apart from that, the running…
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‘Books 4 Refugees’ Brings Library To The Camps
Just a couple months ago, Kristín Rós Kristjánsdóttir was an actor working at a theatre in London. Today, she’s getting ready to return to a refugee camp in northern Greece, where she will be building a library for people who have fled…
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The Crisis In Greece Seen Through Icelandic Eyes
In October 2008, Iceland was hit by a ton of bricks in the form of three collapsing banks. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to help Iceland out with a loan of $2.1bn, then approximately 20% of the country’s GDP. Greece, too,…
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Happy Syriza, Greece!
Syriza won! Meanwhile, in Iceland, nothing worth mentioning seems currently up for debates. If debates don’t exist, we have to invent them. Morgunblaðið and some other media seem to be seriously concerned about the existence of single parents, as a social hazard.…