How Danish authorities use ‘doctored’ reports to deny refugees residency permits, force them out
After Syrians began having their residency permits revoked, nearly every person the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) interviewed on the record for the report spoke out against it. Eight of the sources released a joint statement last March criticising the document as “flawed” and flagging their contributions as “underappreciated”. “I was...
Living in a limbo: Syrian refugees can’t be repatriated because Denmark has no diplomatic ties with Damascus
A week after the publication of the Country-of-Origin Information” (COI) report by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), the Danish Immigration Service said it would start refusing to extend residency permits for refugees from Damascus. DRC criticised the decision, as it had the 2015 Danish law establishing temporary protection, which it...
Human rights: Denmark strips Syrian refugees of residency permits, orders them to return home
Denmark is the first European country to tell large numbers of Syrian refugees to go home. While it hasn’t begun deportations, nearly 400 Syrians from in and around the capital, Damascus, have been stripped of their residency permits and the right to work since 2019. Few of those affected have...
