The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is concerned that Syrian asylum seekers are denied entry to some EU countries like Bulgaria and Greece, spokesman Adrian Edwards said. UNHCR spokesman Edwards told journalists at the UN’s Geneva office that the UNCHR calls for the protection of people, rather than border protection. Noting that trauma is caused when asylum-seekers are prevented from accessing and returning to a territory, Edwards also reminded that Bulgaria had turned back 100 migrants at the border over the weekend and deployed some 1,200 police officers to the border region.
SYRIAN REFUGEES DENIED ENTRY TO GREECE, BULGARIA
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is concerned that Syrian asylum seekers are denied entry to some EU countries like Bulgaria and Greece, spokesman Adrian Edwards said. UNHCR spokesman Edwards told journalists at the UN’s Geneva office that the UNCHR calls for the protection
