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Kurdish refugees in Corsica: asylum or charter flights? - LDH-AEDH-FIDH-REMDH joint press release, 23 January 2010

On Friday, January 22nd, a ship dropped off 140 people on the south coast of Corsica. These people were exhausted and starved. They are women and children desperately trying to escape from what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls “terror and misery”. These people are Kurds from Syria, fleeing one of the worst possible existences under one of the worst possible regimes. They are seeking asylum.

The press release is available in English , Spanish , German and French.

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