New legislation on immigration passed in Iceland’s Parliament last spring states that asylum seekers whose asylum applications have received a final rejection will be stripped of essential services unless they consent to deportation. As a result, dozens of asylum seekers unable to leave the country for reasons personal or political are being stripped of housing […]
A deadlock has arisen in the cases of a group of applicants for international protection under the new immigration laws. Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has
The Icelandic state has paid damages to an Albanian asylum seeker who was deported from the country in her ninth month of pregnancy. The woman
The office of the National Commissioner of Police rejects the allegations that police used excessive force when arresting two men, both asylum seekers from Palestine,
A Palestinian asylum seeker was hospitalised on Tuesday with injuries sustained when he was arrested by police at a Directorate of Immigration office, Vísir reports.
Friends of Uhunoma Osayomore, a 21-year-old man from Nigeria, delivered a petition signed by over 45,000 to Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister of Justice
Icelandic authorities have decided to delay the deportation of a Pakistani couple and their seven-year-old son Muhammed, which was scheduled for today, RÚV reports. The
An asylum seeker on his 12th day of a hunger strike says he is exhausted, but he would rather die in Iceland than be sent
