{"id":5678,"date":"2016-01-31T06:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2016-01-31T06:12:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:12:55","slug":"sweden-criticised-over-plans-to-expel-asylum-seekers-up-to-80000-rejected-asylum-seekers-are-expected-to-be-deported-from-sweden-over-several-years-says-minister-patrick-strickland-29-jan-2016-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2016\/01\/31\/sweden-criticised-over-plans-to-expel-asylum-seekers-up-to-80000-rejected-asylum-seekers-are-expected-to-be-deported-from-sweden-over-several-years-says-minister-patrick-strickland-29-jan-2016-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden criticised over plans to expel asylum seekers  Up to 80,000 rejected asylum seekers are expected to be deported from Sweden over several years, says minister.Patrick Strickland | 29 Jan 2016 20:25 GMT | Human Rights,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"heading-story\"><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2016\/1\/28\/9723a4d4d0d046c8a13f691f1a3d6cf4_18.jpg\" alt=\"Refugees sleep outside the entrance of the Swedish Migration Agency's arrival centre for asylum seekers [File: Stig-Ake Jonsson\/Reuters]\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups have criticised the Swedish government&#8217;s plans to expel\u00a0<a class=\"internallink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/sweden-expel-80000-refugees-160128041124534.html\" target=\"_self\">up to 80,000<\/a>asylum seekers whose applications are expected to be rejected, a move viewed as the latest in a string of similar measures.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the local Dagens Industry newspaper on Thursday, Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said that between 60,000 and 80,000 people will be deported.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 45 percent of Sweden&#8217;s more than 160,000 asylum applicants in 2015 are projected to be denied.<\/p>\n<p>Ygeman said the deportations would be carried out over a span of several years, while the European Union Commission announced its support for Sweden&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Alia al-Ghussain, a senior researcher and advocate at the Malmo-based Centre for Refugee Solidarity, said the number &#8220;is quite shocking because they have not processed all of the applications and cannot be sure they will deport that many people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Among other countries, many of the asylum seekers expected to be rejected are from Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and Palestinian refugees from across the map of the Middle East, al-Ghussain told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government&#8217;s categorisations of what areas are safe and which aren&#8217;t in many of these countries is not representative of reality at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously the policy towards asylum-seekers in Sweden has been worsening, but this seems like such a dramatic turn of events,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Sunderland, associate director of Human Rights Watch&#8217;s Europe and Central Asia programme, said that Sweden&#8217;s announcement is &#8220;designed to discourage potential asylum seekers from seeing it as a destination&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing now is a total panic on the part of EU leaders,&#8221; she told Al Jazeera. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing alarmist and very negative pronouncements on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland, however, added that Sweden &#8220;has a very efficient and generous asylum system, comparatively. 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