Turkey: Teenage Asylum Seeker Dies, Others at Risk of Return
Imagine fleeing your home and your country. Leaving behind everything that you know, hoping to find some safety elsewhere. Then, imagine that instead of safety you are detained, and told you will be returned to your country, without anyone properly considering your story. And then you face abuse and assault from the authorities you had hoped would protect you. Now imagine going through all of this aged just 17.
This was the tragic situation for Lutfillah Tadjik in May this year. The 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker died in Turkey after being detained for removal, and allegedly assaulted by a police officer.
▻http://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/childrens-human-rights-network/turkey-teenage-asylum-seeker-dies-others-risk-return
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