Tag: asylum seeker

Courts are ruling against the Home Office in almost three-quarters of final attempts to remove alleged illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from the country, new figures show.

An Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested after an 18-year-old Norwegian cashier was stabbed to death in an apparent random attack while working at a store in his tiny, rural hometown.

A migrant from Central America made a “credible fear” claim for asylum after being caught illegally crossing the border from Mexico by Border Patrol agents. During processing, the agents discovered the Honduran national is actually a member of MS-13.

Labour has slammed cash-strapped Scarborough council’s rejection of Home Office plans to house illegal immigrants in the North Yorkshire town, where more than 2,000 people are on the housing waiting list.

Border Patrol agents arrested a Honduran couple who are in the U.S. while waiting for an asylum hearing for allegedly smuggling a group of illegal immigrants and their coyote.

Failed Iraqi asylum seeker Ali Bashar has been captured in Iraq and returned to Germany after confessing to the murder of Jewish 14-year-old Susanna F.

The Iraqi migrant suspected of having killed a 14-year-old girl is understood to have been able to flee to his own nation despite having previously been claiming asylum from persecution in his homeland. 

An Egyptian adult who broke into Britain and claimed to be a Syrian child has been jailed for just three and a half years for the “severe and prolonged” rape of a vulnerable schoolgirl.

Around half a million migrants were granted asylum in the European Union (EU) last year, the bloc’s statistics office said Thursday, with Germany taking 60 per cent – more than all other member states combined.

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a man snatched a 5-year-old boy from his family and jumped in front of an approaching train with him at a station in western Germany. The child escaped with light injuries and the assailant was unhurt.

A failed Pakistani asylum seeker has admitted slaughtering his two-year-old daughter, almost severing her head, in an alleged revenge act to “punish” his wife.

LONDON (AFP) – An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker on Friday received a life sentence with a minimum 34-year jail term over the botched bombing of a rush-hour London Underground train that injured 30 people.

An Afghan who threatened to commit a vehicular terror attack which targeted “white people” because he was frustrated waiting for his refugee status has been spared jail.

LONDON (AP) — An 18-year-old has denied responsibility for an explosion on a London subway station that injured 30 people in September.

The migrant who went on a deadly knife and iron bar rampage in Ireland yesterday was an Egyptian asylum seeker who called himself Mohamed.

The father of asylum seeker Hussein Khavari, who is on trial for raping and murdering German student Maria Ladenburger, claims that his son is not underage but is actually 33-years-old. The trial of Mr Khavari began earlier this year but

BERLIN (AP) — A rejected asylum seeker from Ghana has been convicted of raping a camper in Germany.

A ‘mentally ill’ asylum seeker from Somalia was sentenced to two years in prison for raping a woman in the garage under an airport arrivals lounge in Norway.

HELSINKI (AP) — A Moroccan man who is facing charges in a stabbing attack that killed two people and wounded eight others in Finland, lied about his name and age, Finnish police said Sunday.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court has placed a Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of committing war crimes in Syria in pre-trial detention.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An asylum seeker in the Netherlands has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping a 17-year-old woman after attempting to strangle and drown her. The rape in September led one local mayor to

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedes questioned their country’s welcoming immigration policies with pride and pain on Sunday after learning that an asylum-seeker from Uzbekistan was allegedly behind the truck rampage that killed four people, Stockholm’s deadliest extremist attack in years.

An Iraqi asylum seeker has been jailed for luring a “vulnerable”, drunk woman into his basement and raping her after she missed the last bus home.

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany will speed up expulsions of rejected asylum seekers under measures agreed by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet Wednesday, as controversy raged over sending people back to strife-torn Afghanistan.

The number of migrants claiming asylum in Britain due to their sexuality has skyrocketed by an astonishing 450 per cent over the last five years, leading to concerns that not all claims may be genuine.

TEL AVIV – Israel granted asylum to a gay Eritrean man on the grounds that returning to his home country – where homosexuality is illegal – would endanger his life.

A policeman in Switzerland is appealing a conviction on bribery charges after it was revealed he had traded a residency permit for sexual favours from an Iraqi asylum seeker.

A Greek court on Monday rejected the extradition of three military officers demanded by Turkey over their alleged involvement in July’s failed coup, a judicial source said.

UK police are investigating a number of messages on social media criticising plans to turn a huge former care home into accommodation for ‘asylum seekers’, warning user they could face ‘jail’ if they ‘offend’ people.

The trial of a man accused of beating a Christian migrant convert may come to an end because of a dispute over his age. An Afghan migrant is currently on trial in a German court where he is accused of

BRUSSELS (AP) — Austria vowed to press ahead early on Friday with plans to cap the number of asylum seekers entering the country despite claims the move would break the law, as European Union leaders struggled to end their fragmented

A Syrian woman seeking asylum has been accused of using a fake passport to enter the U.S. through the Texas border. Her American citizen brother-in-law has also been charged in connection with the failed smuggling attempt.

German police are investigating an asylum-seeker on suspicion that he fought for the Islamic State group in Syria, newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported Sunday. The suspect is a Syrian national and lives in an asylum-seeker shelter in the northeast region