Linking Progressives East and West Since 1997
東西のプログレッシブをつなぐ − 1997年設立 | Linking Progressives East and West Since 1997
The plight of Kurdish refugees in Japan shows this country may well have the world’s stingiest policies on asylum seekers.
Of the hundreds of thousands of Kurds who have fanned out across the world over the last decade to escape repression and war, mainly from Turkey and Iraq, just 300 have managed to make it past Japanese immigration officials since 1998, and not one has been given asylum
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