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Migrants’ Campsite in Northern Paris Dismantled

reporter 1222 — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:27:26 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – French police dismantled on Wednesday a migrants’ campsite in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, amid mounting pressure for the government to demonstrate a tough stance on illegal immigration.

On Twitter, police said they had started to clear the site, while BFM TV said it was home to at least 1,500 migrants, Reuters reported.

Many refugees have moved to Paris since the closure of a huge migrant camp in Calais in 2016.

Authorities have repeatedly dismantled illegal campsites only for them to pop up again elsewhere within months, with police clearing a makeshift shelter that had emerged again in Calais this month.

Many of the migrants have fled to France from North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, escaping countries blighted by wars and poverty.

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Greece Camp Lockdown after Coronavirus Case Found

reporter 1222 — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:57:26 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Greece has quarantined a second migrant camp this week after a 53-year-old man tested positive for coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Sunday.

The Afghan man, who was found to be infected, lives with his family at the Malakasa camp along with hundreds of other migrants and asylum seekers. He has been transferred to a hospital in Athens. Tests on his contacts will continue as the public health agency tries to trace the route of the virus, Reuters reported.

On Thursday, authorities quarantined the Ritsona camp in central Greece after 20 asylum seekers tested positive for coronavirus. It was the first such facility in Greece to be hit since the outbreak of the disease.

The camp in Malakasa, 40km northeast of Athens, will be put into quarantine for two weeks, the ministry said, adding that police guarding the site would be reinforced.

A new separate closed-type facility started operating last month for migrants who arrived after March 1, the ministry said.

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Ma’rib under Yemen Control

reporter 1222 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:25:07 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Yemeni troops established full control over Kofel camp in the Sirwah district, which lies about 120 kilometers east of the capital Sana’a, after dealing a major blow to militants loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

The development came after pro-Hadi militias fled the district in Ma’rib following a multi-pronged operation by Houthi fighters against them, Press TV reported.

Moreover, the spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said the country’s air defense units had managed to thwart Saudi-led airstrike against areas in Ma’rib Province.

Saree said a squadron of Saudi-led fighter jets sought to bombard areas in the Sirwah district early on Tuesday when the domestically-built and long-range Fater-1 (Innovator-1) surface-to-air missile defense system intercepted the jets and forced them off Yemeni airspace.

The high-ranking Yemeni military official noted that the aircraft left the area without carrying out any strikes.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing back to power the Riyadh-backed former government and crushing the Ansarullah movement.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past nearly five years.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have purchased billions of dollars’ worth of weapons from the United States, France and the United Kingdom in the war on Yemen.

The Saudi-led coalition has been widely criticized for the high civilian death toll from its bombing campaign. The alliance has carried out more than 20,650 air raids in Yemen, according to the data collected by the Yemen Data Project.

The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

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Greece to Build New Camps after Refugee Surge

reporter 1222 — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:01:13 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Greece plans to build two new temporary camps to house hundreds of additional asylum seekers who arrived after a surge enabled by Turkey, the migration minister said Saturday.

“Greece wants to build two new closed camps in (the northern region of) Serres and the greater Athens area with 1,000 places,” migration minister, Notis Mitarachi told Skai TV.

“We need the backing of local communities. We cannot leave all (these) people on the islands,” he said, AFP reported.

Mitarachi said the camps would host asylum seekers who arrived after March 1, when Turkey announced it would no longer prevent people from trying to cross into the European Union.

Residents of a Serres town rumored to host one of the camps staged protests earlier this week and local officials declared their opposition to the plan.

Over 1,700 migrants have landed on Lesbos and four other Aegean islands from Turkey over the past week, adding to the 38,000 already crammed into abysmal and overstretched refugee centers.

The new surge has ramped up already high tensions on an island that has been on the migration frontline for years.

Frustration exploded into violence last weekend with mobs setting up roadblocks, attacking cars carrying NGO workers and beating journalists.

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Ukraine Police Raid Protest Camp, Fail to Find Former Georgian President

reporter 1222 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 06:10:06 +0000

TEHRAN – Dozens of Ukrainian police in riot gear raided a protest camp outside parliament on Wednesday in a failed attempt to detain former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who was freed from custody by supporters a day earlier.

Saakashvili later said police had searched the wrong tent at the camp, continuing a surreal hide-and-seek game between him and Ukrainian law enforcement ever since he barged across the border from Poland three months ago.

Saakashvili was granted Ukrainian citizenship and invited by President Petro Poroshenko to become governor of the Odessa region after the “Maidan” protests ousted a pro-Russian president in early 2014, but the two later fell out.

The saga threatens to embarrass the pro-Western leadership in Kiev, although Saakashvili’s party, which is now seeking to unseat Poroshenko at the ballot box, does not have nationwide support, opinion polls show.

Protesters defended the camp, which was set up in September, leading to clashes in which four policemen and an unknown number of civilians were wounded, Kiev police said in a statement, Reuters reported.

General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko later acknowledged that the operation could have been carried out more effectively, but said police had acted in accordance with the law.

“Saakashvili will be detained and the best thing he could do, if he were a man, if he really loved Ukraine even a little, would be to come today to Volodymyrska Street (security service headquarters) to testify to investigators,” he told parliament.

The situation near parliament was calm at around 1230 GMT, although an increased number of armored police stood guard around the building, according to a witness.

Lutsenko has vowed to make all efforts to regain custody of Saakashvili, who was freed by his supporters from a police van in a chaotic scene on Tuesday after being detained on suspicion of assisting a criminal organization.

In a televised briefing on Wednesday, Saakashvili — supporters see him as a fearless crusader against corruption — said he would not present himself to law enforcement officials, as requested by the General Prosecutor’s office.

“I am prepared to meet an investigator of the prosecutor in the tent city,” he said.

His detention was the latest twist in a prolonged feud between the Ukrainian authorities and Saakashvili, who has turned on his one-time patron Poroshenko, accusing him of corruption and calling for his removal from office.

Poroshenko’s office said prosecutors have evidence to back up the claims against Saakashvili, whom they accuse of receiving financing from criminals linked to former president Viktor Yanukovich who planned to overthrow the current government.

Saakashvili was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship by Poroshenko in July while abroad and is now stateless. The 49-year-old is facing the threat of possible extradition to Georgia, where he is wanted on criminal charges he says were trumped up for political reasons.

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Carlos Queiroz names 26-man squad for Austria camp

reporter 1222 — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:15:36 +0000

Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has named a 26-man squad for the training camp in Austria.

Team Melli will also meet Panama in a friendly match on November 10 in Vienna.

The Persians have defeated the Central American team once on Dec.18, 2004 in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. Ali Daei scored the only goal the match.

Iran, ranked 34th in the world, and Panama (49th) are preparing for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Team Melli have previously played two friendlies against Togo and Russia in early October.

Carlos Queiroz’s men have defeated Togo 2-0 in Tehran and were held to a 1-1 draw by the Russian team in Kazan.

*Iran squad

Goalkeepers: Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis), Rashid Mazaheri (Zob Ahan), Amir Abedzadeh (Maritimo)

Defenders: Jalal Hosseini (Pesepolis), Vouria Ghafouri (Esteghlal), Saeid Aghaei (Sepahan), Milad Mohammadi (Akhmat Grozny), Morteza Pouraliganji (Al Sadd), Ramin Rezaeian (K.V. Oostende), Rouzbeh Cheshmi (Esteghlal)

Midfielders: Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal), Ehsan Haji Safi (Panionios), Akbar Imani (Padideh Mashahd), Ahmad Abdollahzadeh (Foolad Khuzestan ), Saeid Ezatolahi (Amkar Perm), Ali Karimi (Sepahan), Saman Ghoddos (Östersunds FK), Ashkan Dejagah (without team)

Forwards: Mehdi Taremi (Persepolis), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (AZ Alkmaar), Mehdi Torabi (Saipa), Sardar Azmoun (Rubin Kazan), Karim Ansarifard (Olympiacos), Kaveh Rezaei (Charleroi S.C.), Reza Ghoochannejhad (Heerenveen), Vahid Amiri (Persepolis)

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