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Arkiveringsdatum 180819:
AIDA 18-08-06:
Bulgarien/ Developments in the treatment of asylum claims from Afghanistan
Bulgaria introduced new policies concerning the treatment of claims from Afghanistan following a riot in the reception centre of Harmanli on 24 November 2016. Afghan applicants started to be arbitrarily considered as "manifestly unfounded" cases. This was not the first time when the authorities misused the status determination procedure to deter asylum seekers from applying or remaining in Bulgaria. A similar approach was undertaken towards Iraqi asylum seekers in 2010-2011 when the number of applications from that country increased significantly.
While the Harmanli events at the end of 2016 were used as a reason to justify the discriminatory approach towards Afghan nationals, the main driver behind this approach related to the fact that Afghanistan had become the top country of origin of all asylum seekers arriving to Bulgaria from Turkey since 1993.
Afghan asylum seekers were, and still are, issued overwhelmingly negative decisions in the regular procedure, with the exception of cases where they - unlawfully - had their cases determined in pre-removal detention centres under the accelerated procedure. The poor recognition rate for Afghan asylum seekers dropped from 2.5% in 2016 to 1.5% in 2017. The "striking discrepancy between the Bulgarian and the EU average recognition rate for Afghans" has been raised by the European Commission, as well as jurisdictions in other Member States, as a matter of concern. Even evidently credible cases were refused by the State Agency for Refugees (SAR) with blank arguments, which were neither addressed nor redressed by the courts, subject to minor, isolated exceptions.
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