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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lorenzo Tondo and Ashifa Kassam

Bulgaria trying to force out Syrian asylum seekers after fall of Assad

A group of people sitting in rows in the corner of a room
A grab from video footage of asylum seekers at Harmanli reception centre awaiting questioning by Bulgarian officers (faces have been blurred). Photograph: supplied

After the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Bulgaria is attempting to force out Syrian asylum seekers by reportedly pressing them into signing “voluntary return” documents, sometimes with the use of violence.

No Name Kitchen (NNK), a humanitarian organisation working with refugees in the Balkans, has collected evidence of increased harassment of Syrian people on European borders since the Syrian opposition armed forces ousted the Assad family, ending a 54-year bloody regime.

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