{"id":234989,"date":"2025-07-03T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234989\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:01:12","slug":"austria-becomes-first-eu-country-to-deport-syrian-convict-since-assads-fall-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234989\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria becomes first EU country to deport Syrian convict since Assad\u2019s fall \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 32-year-old man was granted asylum in Austria in 2014 but lost his refugee status in 2019 due to his criminal record, his legal adviser Ruxandra Staicu said, according to Reuters.<\/a> Austrian and Syrian authorities agreed to the deportation last week, but airspace closures caused by the Iran-Israel conflict delayed the process.<\/p>\n

Austria, which hosts nearly 100,000 Syrians, was among the EU nations that suspended<\/a> all Syrian asylum applications in December following Assad\u2019s fall. Austria then went further by initiating procedures to revoke the status<\/a> of around 2,900 refugees and halting family reunification \u2014 a policy the new conservative-led government under Chancellor Christian Stocker aims to extend<\/a> to all nationalities.<\/p>\n

In late April,\u00a0Karner traveled to Syria<\/a>\u00a0with his German then-counterpart, Nancy Faeser, to discuss returns and deportations with local authorities.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Thursday<\/a> he was seeking direct talks with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to facilitate the deportation of Afghan criminals from Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 32-year-old man was granted asylum in Austria in 2014 but lost his refugee status in 2019 due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2881,18992,10592,5108,7907,6178,2000,299,5187,1824,40,774,6657,36830,46,6658,48,6500],"class_list":{"0":"post-234989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-alexander-dobrindt","11":"tag-asylum","12":"tag-austria","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-immigration","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-migration","21":"tag-nancy-faeser","22":"tag-policy","23":"tag-refugees","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-syria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114789907494958989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}