Deportation

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the minister - presidents of German provinces have agreed on the accelerated deportation of migrants who have requested but have not received asylum status in the country.

The ruling coalition has approved a 16-point plan making accelerated deportation possible.

The German Ministry of Justice is considering measures like”surveillance bracelet” for dangerous refugees. They are even thinking of applying this measure even before someone is convicted of a crime.

Minister of Labor and Social and Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin said on Tuesday that Serbia is not forcibly deporting illegal migrants from its territory.

When asked by reporters to comment on UNHCR's "data" about "some states illegally deporting migrants," Vulin said the state of Serbia has not forcibly returned any of the migrants to their countries.

Police in Istanbul detained roughly 30 foreigners late on Nov. 20 as part of ongoing efforts to apprehend illegal migrants who escaped a deportation center, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A Protestant pastor and his wife, who have been living in Turkey for 20 years, are due to be deported over alleged missionary activities said to be “against national security.”

About 20,000 migrants have passed through the Sofia Busmantsi Detention Centre. The situation is beyond extreme. Given a capacity of 940 migrants, there are now 1,631 persons or an occupancy rate of 174% . There are 395 persons registered outside the Detention Centre living at their own expense.

Some 200 migrants were deported by boat on Monday from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to the Turkish coastal town of Dikili, escorted by officers from the EU border protection agency Frontex.

Greek media reported that riot police units were also deployed on the boats.

Germany will make it easier to deport criminal foreigners following public outrage over the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne, officials said on Jan. 12.

"With this proposal we are significantly lowering the hurdles for the possible expulsion of foreigners who have committed crimes in Germany," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin.

Asylum seekers returned to Hungary "run a considerable risk of being subject to human rights violations” - and deportation to Serbia.

This is due to the changes introduced in Hungary in the asylum law and practice in recent months, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks said on Wednesday.

In a ruling likely to set a precedent for similar cases, Turkey's top court has halted the deportation of an Iranian family, arguing their deportation could jeopardize the "material and moral integrity" of the family and they could face "ill-treatment."