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...would be revised. Although Southern African leaders agreed to give President Robert Mugabe a "chance" to hold free and fair presidential elections in March, E.U. and U.S. officials have threatened sanctions against the regime, including the freezing of its international assets. Britain offered a reprieve to some 100 Zimbabwean asylum seekers facing deportation...
...AUSTRALIA Up in Arms Rising discontent at a refugee center boiled over as asylum seekers rioted for three straight nights. Detainees at the Woomera camp in South Australia pelted guards with rocks, set buildings on fire and tried to destroy barbed-wire fences. The violence was sparked by anger at the slow processing of visa applications. Some refugees have been kept at the camp for several years. Attorney General Daryl Williams responded by saying: "Vandalism is not going to get you a visa...
...Siri's case demonstrates the oddities of the international legal system. He is in Britain on asylum from Egypt, where he was sentenced to death for the attempted murder of the Prime Minister in 1993, a charge he denies. "That was a military court," he told TIME before his arrest. "I'm a civilian." Governments across Western Europe, their feet held to the fire by strong civil-liberties groups, have been protective of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. And while the European Union has demolished barriers to the movement of goods and people, its 15 nations have been...
Those charged with catching terrorists won't stop trying. And governments are reassessing their policies on immigration, asylum and open borders. New legislation is promised in Canada, Britain and Germany; the talks this year when Mexican and American officials seriously considered not tightening, but liberalizing, their immigration policies now bear the sad echo of a lost world...
...Those charged with catching terrorists won't stop trying. And governments are reassessing their policies on immigration, asylum and open borders. New legislation is promised in Canada, Britain and Germany; the talks this year when Mexican and American officials seriously considered not tightening, but liberalizing, their immigration policies now bear the sad echo of a lost world...