Lauren Seibert

@LozSeibert

Refugee & Migrant Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch . Previous work: Africa / children's rights. Views my own; RTs not endorsements

Washington, DC
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Joined June 2009
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  1. Nov 8

    Pushbacks are costing lives & must stop. “As [migrants & asylum seekers] are summarily expelled from & refuses to allow them back in, people are finding themselves stranded & freezing in Poland's forests. Several have died of hypothermia.”

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    Nov 4

    "Officials tortured him, applying electric shocks to the stump of his leg & forcing him to witness them torture others...Deeply traumatized, he told me he only agreed to [talk to] ...to show others what is really like for returning refugees."

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    Nov 3

    Libyan authorities manufactured a humanitarian crisis by demolishing makeshift shelters of asylum seekers & refugees leaving 1000s fending for themselves in the streets Need to ensure safety, basic needs & urgent restart of humanitarian evacuations

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    Nov 3

    released a new report today on alternatives to migrant detention analyzing 6 countries’ use of alternatives. Immigration detention is harmful, expensive and ineffective. Keep out of detention.👇🏽

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    Nov 1

    The coroner’s report into the death of 24-year-old Iranian Omid Masoumali who self-immolated in 2016 in Nauru is disturbing reading. But it is a MUST-READ to understand the human impact of Australia's offshore detention system

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  6. Oct 27

    "European countries should reckon w/ their responsibilities for the deaths of so many ppl from Africa, the Middle East, & Asia at its borders...[&] reflect on the legacy of colonisation & enduring inequities underlying migration decisions & risks." - op-ed

    The published today an oped I wrote on Europe’s deadly borders. I didn’t have time to update it with news of a young boy who died journey to Canary Islands. Photo
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  7. Oct 25

    What makes a mockery of the asylum system is failing to treat people seeking protection with humanity & dignity. + Maybe you missed: "Both...said they didn’t know about Cyprus’ division... After realizing asylum wasn’t available in the Turkish-Cypriot north," they headed south.

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  8. Oct 25

    US collective expulsions of Haitian migrants & refugees violate intl law, say. US "is subjecting a group of predominantly Black migrants to impermissible risks of refoulement & human rights abuse without any individualised evaluation"

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    Oct 25

    In Aug 2019 I went to to interview dozens of Anglophone Cameroonian asylum seekers & was shocked by 1) their miserable living conditions 2) lack of knwoledge of Cameroonian security/political context by local authorities 3) reports of verbal abuse during interviews

    Unacceptable: 2 Cameroonian asylum seekers living in a tent ~5 months in buffer zone dividing & Turkish-controlled N. Cyprus. UN says these 2 should be allowed to access asylum procedures, but authorities denied access.
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  10. Oct 25

    Unacceptable: 2 Cameroonian asylum seekers living in a tent ~5 months in buffer zone dividing & Turkish-controlled N. Cyprus. UN says these 2 should be allowed to access asylum procedures, but authorities denied access.

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    Oct 22

    Cameroonians face anti-Black abuse in ICE custody, including disproportionate use of force and solitary confinement and denied medical care. This racist and inhumane treatment must stop & the US must :

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    Oct 21

    : Sham Trial “Those responsible have a right to fair trial. But, authorities seem to have railroaded ppl into a sham trial before a military court, with a predetermined outcome, capped with the imposition of the death penalty”

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  13. Oct 21

    So shameful, . New report reveals over 160 internal reports of misconduct & abuse of asylum seekers at the hands of US officials at the border. See report + my colleague 's thread 👇

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    👉The officer said if I gave him sex, I would be set free. 👉He told me, “I enjoy when I capture people like you,” and then kicked me. 👉They called us sons of bitches, dogs, parasites, trash. for border abuses 's new report
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  14. Oct 21

    “Afghans have many reasons to flee and fear. It’s now in the hands of governments around the world to give them reason to hope” — on new policy brief on Pathways to Protection for refugees & asylum seekers.

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  15. Oct 20

    🚨 is not safe; no Syrian refugee should be forced to return. New report on what happened to refugees returned from & to Syria: detention, torture, kidnappings, killings, enforced disappearances, & struggles to survive.

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  16. Oct 20

    Happy to have been a part of this march in DC with the network yesterday calling for Temporary Protected Status for Cameroonians in the US!

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    Oct 20

    Syrians returned from Jordan & Lebanon were arrested, arbitrarily detained, tortured, disappeared. It's clear that no country, incl EU, should force refugees to return to Syria. Denmark shld reinstate temporary protection. New report

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    Oct 19

    1/6 is not safe‼️ A thread on breaking new new report on what happened to Syrian refugees when they returned to . We spoke to 65 refugees from and and documented horrifying cases of abuse and persecution.

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  19. Oct 18

    Orgs fighting for racial justice & immigrants’ rights have filed a civil rights complaint condemning inhumane use of “Wrap” restraint to immobilize African asylum seekers & migrants for hours in stress positions before + during deportation flights

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    Oct 15

    Turkish authorities are beating, burning belongings of Afghan asylum seekers crossing into the country from Iran and summarily pushing them back to Iran in violation of international law says in latest report out today

    A soldier stands on the top of a hill, looking at the border wall between Turkey and Iran, with his back to the camera
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