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In response, the Palestinian Authority declared a state of emergency, imposed a citywide lockdown, and enforced a curfew. However, the onset of a second wave from July resulted in rapid growth of the number of cases. By the end of November , the territories, including east Jerusalem, had reported nearly 85, confirmed cases of COVID and deaths. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA has put in measures to slow the spread of the virus, including giving medical consultations by phone, delivering humanitarian assistance to avoid overcrowding at distribution centres, and blending school with remote learning.
However, these measures have been criticised for being insufficient to prevent the spread. Numerous concerns, meanwhile, have been raised regarding healthcare provision in the OPT, particularly in Gaza, where medical infrastructure is chronically under-resourced and has, in the past, faced militarised attacks--as well as the effects of years of suffocating blockades. In April, it was reported that between the three hospitals located in East Jerusalem, there are only 22 ventilators and 62 beds prepared for coronavirus patients. Moreover, attempts by Palestinians to mobilise community health initiatives have been met with crackdowns on the part of the Israeli police.
Administrative detention is permitted under Article of Military Order , which is part of the military legislation applying in the West Bank; the Internment of Unlawful Combatants Law Unlawful Combatants Law , which has been used against residents of the Gaza Strip since ; and the Emergency Powers Detentions Law, which applies to Israeli citizens.
According to the Palestinian NGO Addameer, administrative detention is used almost exclusively to detain Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory OPT , although Israeli citizens and foreign nationals can also be held as administrative detainees by Israel. Conditions within the prison have previously been criticised for being overcrowded and dirty. In March, the Israeli government released approximately offenders from prisons throughout Israel for a day house arrest, after which they were officially released from prison.
Der Standard reported that Austrian police were involved in several cases of pushbacks to Slovenia followed by chain pushbacks to Bosnia in September. According to freelance journalist Christof Mackinger, the Austrian authorities are said to have been involved in two instances of illegal pushbacks. They are said to have been deported from Slovenia via Croatia to Bosnia. The second incident took place on 28 September, when seven Moroccan nationals were picked up by the Styrian police near the village of Halbenrain.

They were registered and then also handed over to Slovenian officials. The migrant is now in Bosnia-Herzegovina after Slovenian police handed him over to the Croatian police, who, along with other migrants, dropped him off near the Bosnian border. They were then reportedly driven across the border by masked men. The Interior Ministry spokesperson denied the accusations.
In late November, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture released a report about its monitoring visit to Ireland in The profile noted concerns that such a facility could lead to more detention in the country. Media reports indicate that as of August , this facility had yet to open. The CPT, however, reports that by the time of its visit to Ireland in September-October , a new Garda Police Station had opened at the airport with four cells and two holding rooms , which could detain non-citizens for a maximum of 24 hours. Prisons, however, continue to detain immigration detainees for longer periods.
As a result, the CPT reiterated its call, which it has been repeating since at least , for authorities to establish a dedicated immigration detention facility. The CPT suggested the use of a disused unit at Cloverhill Prison F Block where detainees could be offered a more open regime, and greater access to the telephone and unscreened visits. In Cloverhill Prison, three inmates are known to have contracted the virus, while five prisoners in Midlands Prison were reported to have tested positive as of 30 October.
Both the Cloverhill and Midlands prisons are used to confine migrants and asylum seekers. However, the suspension in Ireland appears to have been lifted, with several groups of refugees reported to have been flown to the country since the summer. Most recently on 19 November, Syrians including 90 children were transported to Ireland on an IOM chartered flight. Ireland has not been alone in the suspension of its resettlement scheme: on 19 November, UNHCR warned that will be a record low for resettlement.
In stark contrast to the increasing efforts by many countries around the world to decrease or end child immigration detention, Malaysia continues to detain large numbers of children, despite the dangers presented by the spread of COVID While UNICEF has called on governments to immediately release children to protect them during the pandemic, Malaysia reported in October that it was holding hundreds of children in migration-related detention. Of these, were unaccompanied of whom were unaccompanied child refugees from Myanmar. UNHCR, however, has been denied access to immigration detention centres since August , and thus cannot clarify the refugee status of these children, or the procedures they have been granted access to.
Malaysian authorities have conducted numerous raids and immigration arrests since May , placing all apprehended persons in already overcrowded detention facilities for more on these raids, see our 3 May Malaysia update on this platform. Doctors in the state, which accounts for nearly half of all cases in the country, have also reported that non-nationals have delayed seeking treatment when they contract the virus, likely contributing to higher levels of infection--as well as higher death rates. As of 24 November , 11, confirmed cases and 86 deaths have been reported. Like its Central Asian neighbours, Tajikistan has long witnessed significant flows of external labour migration, especially to Russia.
In August, undocumented Tajik migrants in Moscow were targeted in raids--see 19 November Russia Federation update on this platform.
Despite espousing independence for the south, his faction received covert support from the government as it fought for years against the SPLA, resorting to increasingly bloody and ethnically motivated attacks against civilians. Omar El Bashir as president. In the first and only ethnic census taken , Arabs were 39 percent, and Africans 61 percent, of whom Dinka were the largest group at 12 percent of the total population. It also prohibited humanitarian access to those recently displaced, if they remained in areas near the oilfields. One of the two largest parties in Sudan during democratic times, it was part of the NDA in but withdrew in and its leadership returned to Sudan from exile to operate as a political party.
Border closures and flight cancellations, however, have left thousands of Tajik migrant workers stranded outside of the country waiting for charter flights to repatriate them. Between April and October, Tajik officials report having returned 70, citizens via charter flights. In , Tajikistan established a new law allowing foreign nationals and stateless people irregularly residing in the country to regularise their stay by obtaining residence permits, as well as enabling them to apply for Tajik citizenship after three years.
State authorities estimate the new law will benefit some 20, people, mostly former citizens of the Soviet Union, who came to Tajikistan before the end of A signatory of the Refugee Convention, the country has adopted domestic legislation for the purposes of refugee protection under the Law on Refugees which was revised in and As of August , there were a total of 11, persons of concern in Tajikistan according to UNHCR, including 2, refugees the vast majority of whom are from Afghanistan , 2, asylum seekers, and 6, stateless persons.
It has also raised concern regarding provisions in national law that do not conform to the Refugee Convention, such as Resolution , which provides that a person who has transited through certain countries e. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan is considered as having found protection in those countries, which can subsequently constitute a basis for refusal of registration of applications for granting asylum. Law No. In such cases, it must communicate information about this detention to the relevant internal affairs departments within 72 hours, while observing the principle of non-refoulement.
Under Law No. Little information appears to be available concerning the treatment of migrants or asylum seekers in immigration enforcement and detention procedures in Tajikistan--including during the pandemic.

In its third periodic report on Tajikistan in June , the UN Committee on Torture expressed concern regarding reports of torture in prisons and pre-trial detention, including deaths in custody, particularly of political dissidents. Having banned prison visits to inmates during the pandemic, on 16 November it was reported that families would be able to visit their detained relatives again.
The delegation visited several police and border guard establishments in the Evros and Samos regions as well as three immigration detention facilities: Filakio Reception and Identification Centre, Filakio Pre-removal centre in the Evros region, and Malakasa detention camp in Attica. For instance, a visit of two cells at the Port of Samos revealed that 93 migrants 58 men, 15 women - three of whom were pregnant - and 20 children, 10 of whom were under five year old were crammed into the two cells.
One of the cells measured 42 square metres and held 43 people affording each one less than 1 square meter of living space per person.
In addition, there was no artificial lighting, no heating, no beds, and no mattresses. The migrants met by the delegation had not had access to a shower for more than two weeks and no soap was given to them to wash their hands. The CPT also found that appropriate health care—essential during the pandemic—is not available in all facilities in which migrants are detained. On 18 November , a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to cease the expulsion of unaccompanied migrant children during the pandemic, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deportations of minors.
The government has expelled at least 8, unaccompanied children seeking protection since March on the basis of a health order issued by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention CDC , despite citing the coronavirus as grounds for refusing entry to the United States. The District Judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from expelling unaccompanied minors and it is not yet known whether the Justice Department would appeal the decision.
The deportation policy has been justified on the basis of a rarely used public health law dating back to for more information, see 10 November United States update on this platform. In September, a U. Border patrol agents have reportedly used the CDC order to send back more than , people crossing the northern and southern borders since the start of the pandemic.
Since early November, more than 27, Ethiopian refugees have fled the Tigray region and crossed into Sudan. Information campaigns are reported to have been initiated to ensure that refugees crossing into Sudan understand how to avoid the spread of COVID, and hand soap and 50, face masks have been sent to the border areas from Khartoum.
With growing numbers of arrivals--and predictions by international observers that thousands more refugees will seek refuge in Sudan--available shelter is under increasing pressure, and authorities face a rush to identify and provide more sites. A transit centre in Hamdayet, which has capacity for people, is reported to be hosting 12, Several thousand have been placed in the Um Rakouba or Um Raquba refugee camp, but authorities are struggling to provide sufficient services, including food distribution.
As of the end of , Sudan was reported to be hosting 1,, refugees--the majority of whom are from South Sudan. However, more than 75 percent of South Sudanese refugees are believed to be living within the host community. Persons found exiting camps are subject to fines and return to the camp, while those apprehended in urban areas face arrest and detention if they lack valid identification cards.
According to the U. State Department, on average between and refugees and asylum seekers are detained in Khartoum each month. Reports in the past have indicated that the country uses prisons for the detention of non-nationals for migration-related reasons, as well as ad hoc immigration detention facilities. The U. Prison conditions, meanwhile, remain deeply concerning. In , German media obtained documents that showed that EU efforts to curb migration focussed on border protection, and that plans were in place to establish two camps with detention rooms.
Concerns that EU funds were being channeled into a country with little respect for human rights have grown since the launch of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. In , these concerns became acute in the wake of reports that the RSF Rapid Support Force, formerly the notorious Janjaweed , which had been hired to curb migration using EU funds, had been involved in the arrest and deportation of hundreds of Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers. As of July however, the programme appeared to have resumed.