Video: Iraqi refugees face rejection
More than a million people have left Iraq since 2003.The United Nations High Commission for Refugees believes that Iraq is still unstable.But those who reach Europe seeking asylum, are increasingly at risk of being sent back.Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Baghdad.
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Sweden slammed for Iraqi deportations
Sweden’s migration minister has refused to respond to concerns from the United Nations and the Council of Europe about Sweden’s decision to resume the deportation of Iraqis. Last Wednesday 20 Iraqis, including five Christians, were put on a plane back to Iraq. “I am concerned since this is not the first time that Sweden has forcibly sent back refugees to Ir…
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Sweden's deporting Iraqi Christians
The U.N. criticized Sweden on Friday for deporting five Iraqi Christians back to their homeland as Iraq's Christian community comes under severe threat of militant attacks. Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled abroad or to the relative safety of Iraq's northern Kurdish region since an Oct. 31 siege on a Catholic church in Baghdad that was taken h…
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