29 minutes agoECHR condemns Russia for blocking asylum seekers at Russian airport
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Russia had violated the rights of four asylum seekers who were trapped in a transit zone of a Moscow airport for months. Asylum seekers, from Iraq, Palestine, Somalia and Syria, spent about a year sleeping in mattresses, on the floor of [...]
Asylum seekers, from Iraq, Palestine, Somalia and Syria, spent about a year sleeping in mattresses, on airport floor “Sheremetyevo” between 2015 and 2017.
The Strasbourg-based court stressed that the four had been deprived of freedom for a long period, without legal grounds, and the process of their asylum demands had been too slow.
Their living conditions were humiliating treatment, having to sleep on the floor in an area filled with people and noisy, without showers, cooking facilities, or wild activities.
The ECHR ordered Russia to pay 20,000 euros in compensation each of the Iraqi and Syrian asylum seekers -- 150,000 euros for the Palestinian and 26,000 euros for that from Somalia. / A OVR
