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Asylum Applications Decrease, While Iraqi Deportations Increase
Applications for asylum have decreased by 40% between last year and this one, RÚV reports. However, deportations of Iraqi asylum seekers are increasing, in part because the Directorate of Immigration (UTL) believes that parts of Iraq are safe enough to live in…
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Icelandic Peace Activist Vindicated 16 Years After The Fact
Icelanders were recently shocked and appalled to learn that Icelandic airline Air Atlanta had made dozens of trips, from eastern Europe to Saudi Arabia, delivering many weapons of war to that country, including the internationally-banned landmines. This was done with the knowledge…
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Refugee Children See The Snow For The First Time
If their arrival to Iceland weren’t already a moment to cherish, the magical snowfall that welcomed the group of refugees arriving from Syria to the Westfjörds yesterday morning made it a truly memorable day. Local news outlet RÚV was there to record…
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21 Refugees From Iraq Arrive In Iceland
Five families from Iraq, comprised of 21 people, arrived in Iceland yesterday as the first round of refugees the government has invited to live in the country. Parliament decided last August to invite a total of 52 refugees to Iceland this year,…
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You & Me In Different Circumstances
Christian Rølla has been working as a photographer for the past five years. He has drawn from many inspirations, including famed war photographer Robert Capa. Christian tells us he was inspired to this work by a combination of his activist proclivities and…
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Iraqi Asylum Seeker Refusing To Return To Shelter
Likening the facility to a “prison”, Raisan tells The Grapevine he will sit in front of parliament until he is physically moved. Raisan, now on the 11th day of his hunger strike, is currently sitting in front of parliament, where he intends…
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Documents Contradict Immigration’s Contentions
A recently deported Iraqi asylum seeker is only 16-years-old, new documentation shows, contradicting assertions from the Directorate of Immigration (UTL) that he is an adult. Ali Nasir, an asylum seeker from Iraq, was amongst those dragged from church by police and sent…
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Iraqi Asylum Seeker Now In 8th Day Of Hunger Strike
An Iraqi man who fled his country because he did not want to kill is now in the eighth day of his hunger strike, protesting his deportation and others. Raisan Al-shihmani, an asylum seeker who fled Iraq in September 2015 and has…
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MP Criticises Church For Providing Asylum Seekers Sanctuary
A conservative MP has called for the church’s funding to be cut for providing Iraqi asylum seekers with sanctuary, accusing the church of obstructing justice – an accusation contradicted by video evidence. Stundin reports that Independence Party MP Brynjar Níelsson accused the…
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Why The Hell Are We Sending People Back To Iraq?
Our asylum seeker treatment has now reached epically dangerous and hypocritical proportions. As many of our readers are aware, the Directorate of Immigration (UTL) has for a long time now demonstrated astonishing levels of incompetence and cruelty, on many occasions in violation…
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Deported Iraqis Now In Norwegian Jail, President-Elect Displeased
The Iraqi asylum seekers deported from Iceland earlier this week are now in Norwegian jail, and will soon be sent back to Iraq. President-elect Guðni Th. Jóhannesson has expressed his disapproval of the deportation, and it has come to light that police…
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PM: Iceland Should Not Have Been In “Coalition Of The Willing”
While the Prime Minister does not feel Iceland should apologise for being in the “Coalition of the Willing”, he said participation in it was a mistake. Left-Green MP Svandís Svavarsdóttir recently posed a formal question to Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, asking…
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Israel Condemns Former Foreign Minister
The Ambassador of Israel to Iceland has condemned former Foreign Minister, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, for asking that people not only pray for Paris but for the Lebanese, Iraqis and Palestinians as well. “Yes, let’s pray for Paris,” said Jón Baldvin in an…
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Opposition Proposes Condemnation Of CIA’s Torture
On Friday, members of all the parties currently in opposition proposed a resolution to Alþingi, by which the parliament would “severely condemn torture conducted by the USA’s secret service and which authorities have condoned since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2011”.…