{"id":69339,"date":"2026-06-14T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/69339\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:17:08","slug":"european-asylum-tightening-takes-effect-lsvd-criticizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/69339\/","title":{"rendered":"European asylum tightening takes effect; LSVD+ criticizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the EU asylum reform took effect on Friday, the queer association LSVD+ renewed its critique. The Common European Asylum System (GEAS) expands, among other things, the list of so-called safe origin countries to include Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia \u2014 and thereby covers countries where people face up to 14 years in prison solely for their homosexuality. Tunisia even tortures alleged gays (TheColu.mn reported). The European Parliament had approved the reform in February with the votes of conservatives, right-wing populists, and extremists (TheColu.mn reported).<br \/>\u201cThe GEAS reform package raises serious human rights concerns,\u201d said LSVD+\u2019s national board member Alva Tr\u00e4bert. \u201cIn the German implementation, queer refugees must not be crushed under the wheels! Detention-like accommodations at EU external borders, a vulnerability screening by police officers, and deportations to so-called \u2018safe third countries\u2019\u2014which, in the worst cases, can be dangerous for LSBTIAQ*, are sharply criticized.\u201d<br \/>\u201cIn particular, the expansion of the European list of \u2018safe origin states\u2019 is rejected by the queer association. \u201cWithin the reform, it would have been possible to exempt at least LSBTIAQ*-persons from this rule in persecuting states, but the EU did not make use of this option,\u201d lamented Tr\u00e4bert. \u201cThese and other countries have been declared safe for years by political decisions, even though there is no real security for queer people there.\u201d The designation as a so-called \u201csafe origin state\u201d means an accelerated asylum procedure, \u201cwhich affects queer people particularly hard,\u201d the critique notes. \u201cEspecially when sexual orientation and gender identity are grounds for persecution, time\u2014due to the increased vulnerability of those affected\u2014plays a significant role.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThrough accelerated procedures, queer people, especially if they lack knowledge of the German legal system, could be sent back directly into \u2018imminent life-threatening danger,\u2019 without being able to access the humanitarian protection enshrined in fundamental rights in a fair manner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the EU asylum reform took effect on Friday, the queer association LSVD+ renewed its critique. The Common&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[193,12731,32079,15,38736,38737,16908],"class_list":["post-69339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-europe","tag-asylum","tag-criticizes","tag-effect","tag-european","tag-lsvd","tag-takes","tag-tightening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}