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Portugal:Romanians to be rejected

01 January 1994

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The Interior ministry announced in December 1993 that all pending asylum requests by Romanians would be refused and they would be ordered to leave the country. The measure is illegal and in breach of the Geneva Convention which prohibits mass determination of refugee status. To assist the asylum-seekers in leaving, the government has withdrawn a subsidy to a refugee hostel. Since September 1993 asylum-seekers are put up for 10 days by the UNHCR, but after that they are on their own

Migration News Sheet January, 1994.

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