September 12, 2014

Life in Romania is impossible for Refugees

European countries must stop sending refugees and asylum seekers back to Romania.

Detention centres and living conditions of Refugees and Asylum seekers in Romania constituted inhuman or degrading treatment.


According to the European Union law's "Dublin Regulation", the first Member State that an asylum seeker enters should be the one to examine the asylum application. Therefore, the authorities of “Dublin Regulation Member States returned refugees & asylum seekers to Romania where they were in degrading and inhuman conditions.

The authorities of “Dublin Regulation Member States” routinely refuse to examine asylum applications of refugees and asylum seekers who have transited Romania on the basis of the 'safe third country' concept.

This is based on the flawed assumption that refugees and asylum seekershave access to protection there.

“Protect Refugees Network (PRN)” wants that Western & Northern European to know this truth: "Life is not possible for refugees and asylum seekers in Romania".

In addition, European countries such as Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, Austria, Denmark etc. must stop sending refugees back to Romania.

Returning refugees and asylum seekers from 
 “Dublin Regulation Member States” to Romania 
violates the European Convention on Human Rights
(An asylum seeker may not be transferred to a Member State where he risks being subjectedto inhumane treatment, 21 December 2011) and 
the PRESS RELEASE No 147/13 of the Court of Justice of the European Union, 14 November 2013.


This report (Refugees in Romaniatreated ‘Worse than Animals’ in Detention Centres) documents the extremely sorrowful detaining conditions of refugees & asylum seekers that detained in Detention Centres in Bucharest (Otopeni) and Arad, Romania.

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers are alone in finding a way for saving themselves.


‘Inhuman Conditions’ after Deportation from European countries to Romania under the Europe’s Dublin Regulation.

“Protect Refugees Network (PRN)” describes the receptions conditions for refugees & asylum seekers in Romania as ‘deplorable’ and ‘at variance with the right to human dignity and respect for privacy’.



The Refugees who have "refugee status" are hunger and homeless in Romania.

The Refugees who took "refugee status" are homeless in Romania. No health insurance, medicine, social security, housing, work and no food.

Situation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers at Regional Centre for Accommodation and Procedures(a Half Open Centre) in Romania; some problems are the lack of safety(Ex. electric shock), foods, safe drinking water, medical assistance and the fact that the buildings are not designed to host asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers who granted refugee status must leave Regional Centre for Accommodation and Procedures(a Half Open Centre) before a certain period of time has ended(within a few months) without any accommodation for sleep, thus become a homeless.


 Inhuman situations at immigration Detention Centres(Deportation Cntres) in Romania:

The medical problems that detained migrants and asylum seekers suffer from, often as a result of substandard conditions and the lack of consistent or adequate medical assistance.
Conditions include respiratory, gastrointestinal,
dermatological, and musculature diseases, as well as anxiety, depression, and extreme acts such as hunger strikes.


The video recorded by asylum seeker's mobile in Detention Centres, in Comuna Horia, Judetul Arad in Romania.




Detention Centres (
Closed Centre)
in Romania:
1.
Centre for Accommodation of Foreigners taken in Public Custody Arad
Comuna Horia, Judetul Arad for irregular migrants
((The centre is not in ARAD but in a small village closed to Arad, called Horia (20-30 km) far away))
2.
Centre for Accommodation of Foreigners taken in Public Custody Otopeni Sos. Bucuresti- Ploiesti, nr.257, Otopeni, judet Ilfov
For irregular migrants (The centre is near to Bucharest, 15 km far away, in Otopeni –)


 Protect Refugees Network requires from the European Union and the authorities of “Dublin Regulation Member States” to Stop the Deportation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers To Romania.



“Protect Refugees Network (PRN)


http://protect-refugees.blogspot.com/

See more:
EU court issues ruling against Greece for 'inhuman treatment' of refugees,            


“Suntem trataţi mai rău ca animalele”.  By Costi Rogozanu, 21.03.2012


Refugees in Romania – treated ‘Worse than Animals’ in Detention Centres. April 5, 2012

By Dr Gill Gillespie, UK Director and Walton K Martin, US Director
https://iranian-refugees.com/2012/04/05/refugees-in-romania-treated-worse-than-animals-in-detention-centres/ 
Locations of open centres and closed detention centres for asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Romania.

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as amended by Protocols No. 11 and No. 14, Rome, 4. XI.1950 [Article 1 – Obligation to respect human rights: The High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention. Article 3 – Prohibition of torture: No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 5 – Right to liberty and security: 1. everyone has the right to liberty and security of person.]


JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber), 21 December 2011, In Joined Cases C411/10 and C493/10,



European Commission: Summaries of important judgments, May 2012



“All EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland apply the Dublin system”.

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