Madrid, February 4 (EFE) .- Amnesty International (AI) criticized today that Spain and hosts “due” to asylum-seekers from Syria nor “has resettled none of the nearly four million refugees” who You left that country.
In a statement, the organization said that during 2014 some 3,000 Syrians came to Spain via Ceuta and Melilla, and although asylum applications-not everyone pidieron- were admitted admissible, “still not taken adequate to carry out a host according to international standard measures”.
The head of internal politics of AI Spain, Virginia Alvarez, said that although it is expected that applicants for seekers begin to be transferred to Spain, “even here the system is ready to welcome these people. No reception places for asylum seekers, even having waiting lists.”
AI indicated that, according applicable law, asylum seekers whose procedures were admitted “should be able to move throughout the Spanish territory freely.”
However, assured that this is not true, so that “these people may be trapped Ceuta or Melilla for months or years without rights under asylum legislation. “
He noted that some of the asylum seekers from Syrian nationality who are in this situation have been transferred to the mainland but with random criteria, “often based solely on the occupation of the centers.”
The organization said that this limitation on freedom of movement influences people “discouraged from seeking asylum and live in overcrowded Centres of Temporary Stay of Immigrants (CETI) of Ceuta and Melilla. “
Only in the center of Melilla, with a capacity for 480 people, said the NGO,” currently remain more than 1,900 people (400 children) of which 1,500 came fleeing the Syrian conflict. “
There are also about 600 asylum applications have been admissible, people who are waiting to be transferred to the peninsula and that the government “has only offered 130 resettlement places,” which “has not yet been done.”
AI has collected over 12,600 signatures through “www.actuaconamnistia.org” to ask the Spanish authorities to take steps to properly accommodate more people from Syria and has launched the campaign #OpenToSyria rich countries accept most vulnerable refugees through resettlement programs and admission on humanitarian grounds. EFE
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