Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is pushing for return hubs for migrants who do not leave the EU despite rejection. It will reduce the very will to seek asylum altogether, he says to TT in Vienna. A proposal is expected as early as March, according to Kristersson.
Swedish politicsZimbabwe abolishes the death penalty, nearly 20 years after the penalty was last carried out in the country.
WorldHundreds of thousands of Syrians on the run may return home in the coming months, according to the UN. But for this to happen, political stability and reconstruction of the country are required, says Annika Sandlund at UNHCR. For Syrians to be able to return home, they must have a home to return to.
WorldA former officer loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and who issued death sentences in the notorious Saydnaya prison has been arrested.
WorldIn prisons and morgues, Syrians desperately search for husbands, brothers, and sons. Nameless bodies bear witness to the regime's brutality. Someone is missing eyes, along a neck, the marks of a rope are visible. Tens of thousands of people are missing after decades of dictatorship. For the relatives, a new era of uncertainty has begun.
WorldTens of thousands of Syrians are believed to have been executed, tortured or starved to death in Assad's regime's notorious prisons. For the relatives, the wait for answers is unbearable. The work of excavating Syria's dead has only just begun.
WorldTurkish rescue workers who searched through the notorious Saydnaya prison north of Damascus are ending the search. No prisoners have been found alive.
WorldSerbian authorities are using advanced digital surveillance technology to spy on journalists and opposition activists through their mobile phones, according to Amnesty International.
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