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9 months, 1 week ago

Austria expels two Russian diplomats for actions 'incompatible with status'

Austria has declared two diplomats from the Russian embassy personae non gratae for actions "incompatible with their diplomatic status," ordering them to leave the country within a week, Austria's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The move brings to 11 the number of Russian diplomats Austria has expelled since 2020 in four separate rounds. "Two diplomats from the Russian embassy have …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Migration activists are sounding the alarm this week about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing more migrants arrive for attempted Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights on Monday accused the government of waging a campaign of repression against migrants at the …

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1 year ago

Bribes, treason and hay bales: The chaotic history of expulsions from Congress

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The latest blow of many to Mr Santos’s short yet tumultuous political career came …

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1 year, 3 months ago

2 French journalists expelled from Morocco as tensions revive between Rabat and Paris

Associated Press

PARIS — Two French journalists have been expelled from Morocco this week in a move denounced by media outlets and press freedom advocates. The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders both denounced the expulsions on X, with the latter describing them as a “brutal and inadmissible attack on press freedom.” Moroccan government spokesperson Mustapha Baitas said on Thursday …

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1 year, 3 months ago

‘Academic decline‘: Why are university professors being expelled in Iran?

Al Jazeera

Authorities, academics, newspapers, former officials and users online are debating the major changes at universities. He posted documents showing otherwise online and said: “The truth has been sacrificed for politics.” Several professors at other top universities, including the University of Tehran, have also been expelled this month. It said the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and the universities were …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Tunisian minister denies expulsion of Black refugees

Al Jazeera

NGO Avocats Sans Frontieres says Tunisia’s expulsions are illegal, adding to the criticism of the government’s actions. “Migrants should not be sent back to situations of destitution or inhospitable conditions in which their safety or their human rights would be threatened, for example in cases of expulsions to the “no man’s lands” between borders.” But on Thursday, Tunisian Interior Minister …

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1 year, 5 months ago

In backlash over their expulsions, 2 Tennessee Democratic lawmakers raised $2M combined

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee state Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones have raised more than $2 million combined through about 70,400 campaign donations after Republican lawmakers abruptly expelled the Democrats this spring for their gun control protest on the House floor. Instead, each of the two lawmakers saw a flood of campaign cash beyond the norm for even Republican legislative …

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1 year, 5 months ago

HRW urges Tunisia to suspend expulsions of African refugees

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of people were rounded up from Sfax and driven to the militarised Tunisia-Libya border zone this week. A global human rights group has urged Tunisia to stop its expulsion of sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants and for humanitarian services to be provided to those languishing at the North African country’s border with Libya. “Not only is it unconscionable to …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Mass expulsions and mistreatment of migrants reported in Tunisia as tensions spike in port city

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tensions spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city this week after three migrants were detained in the death of a local man, and there were reports of retaliation against Black foreigners and accounts of mass expulsions and alleged assaults by security forces. Sfax, on Tunisia’s eastern coast, is a main departure point for migrants and refugees planning …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Expulsions, walkouts, filibusters: Lawmakers grapple with acrimonious legislative sessions

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lawmakers this year have kicked rival colleagues out of office in Tennessee and off the chamber floor in Montana. Lawmakers “recognize that the general electorate would prefer that they compromise, but they think that the primary electorate wants them to oppose it,” said Laurel Harbridge-Yong, a Northwestern University political scientist. Though protesters didn’t enter the House floor, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

India asks China to facilitate journalists after recent expulsions

The Hindu

India has called on China to “facilitate the continued presence of Indian journalists working and reporting from China” in the wake of Beijing revoking the credentials of three Indian reporters since April. New Delhi also said that “all foreign journalists, including Chinese journalists have been pursuing journalistic activities in India without any limitations or difficulties in reporting or doing media …

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1 year, 6 months ago

China says its reporters in India ‘about to drop to zero’ amid mutual expulsions

The Hindu

China’s government has said the number of Chinese journalists in India was “about to drop to zero”, amid a string of mutual expulsions of journalists by the two countries. In early April, the Chinese Foreign Ministry “froze” the visas of two Indian correspondents barring their return to China, while last month a third journalist did not have their accreditation renewed, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Timeline: Title 42 expulsions at the US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera

Biden administration is preparing for end of contentious US policy that let authorities turn away most asylum seekers. August 2021: The Biden administration renews Title 42, saying lifting the policy would “exacerbate overcrowding at facilities and create significant public health risks”. September 2021: A federal judge rules that the Biden administration must stop using Title 42 expulsions against families with …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Schumer and Warnock lead call for DOJ investigation into expulsion of Tennessee Democrats

Salon

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Tennessee House Republicans have been roundly denounced since voting last Thursday to expel state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, with critics arguing that the removal of the Black progressive lawmakers—the state's first partisan expulsion since 1866—exemplifies the GOP's growing antagonism toward democracy. Wednesday's letter, the first formal effort by U.S. senators to …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Stunned Republican calls out Tennessee speaker over 'horrible' expulsions

Raw Story

Amid the roar, former Republican state Rep. Kent Calfee is a voice crying out from the wilderness, questioning House Speaker Cameron Sexton’s handling of a floor protest that led to expulsions for two of three lawmakers. Then came the prosecution by Republican House members who pointed out that the trio gathered at Johnson’s desk and then walked to the well …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Palestinians face expulsions as Israel tightens hold on West Bank

Al Jazeera

Israeli officials push to increase the budget for settlers to monitor and restrict Palestinian construction to $11m. Under the pretext that his home was built without an Israeli army-issued permit in “Area C“, the 60 percent of the West Bank under exclusive Israeli military control, Israeli authorities monitored Khater’s home and the surrounding area for 17 years with constant patrols …

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1 year, 8 months ago

'The stupidity, it burns': Charlie Sykes warns Tennessee expulsions will hurt GOP everywhere

Raw Story

Tennessee Republicans voted to expel two Black lawmakers -- but not a white Democratic woman -- for a protest on the statehouse floor, and conservative Charlie Sykes denounced the move as "political malpractice." The GOP supermajority expelled Democratic state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, while an attempt to expel state Rep. Gloria Johnson failed by one vote, and Sykes …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Hidden expulsions? Schools are removing students, but vague data can mask the reason

LA Times

Ricky Carmona — shown with his aunt Stephanie Carmona, who is his guardian — was forced out of Bonita High School in La Verne just four days into the school year after being caught vaping on campus. Despite policies that require California school districts to report the number of students transferred, the state Department of Education’s overlapping and vague reporting …

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2 years, 7 months ago

US judge blocks Biden’s plan to end Title 42 border expulsions

Al Jazeera

A judge in the United States has blocked the Biden administration’s plan to end a contentious immigration policy that allows US authorities to turn away most asylum seekers arriving at the country’s southern border with Mexico. “That means Title 42 will not end anytime soon,” tweeted Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, about the federal judge’s …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Greece, Norway order expulsion of Russian envoys amid Ukraine war

Al Jazeera

Greece and Norway become the latest EU countries to order the expulsion of Russian diplomats amid outrage over Ukraine. Greece and Norway have announced the expulsion of a total of 15 Russian diplomats, becoming the latest European Union countries to order such expulsions amid increasing outrage over Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Greek authorities have declared 12 members of diplomatic and …

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2 years, 8 months ago

US announces end to Title 42 expulsions at Mexico border

Al Jazeera

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says Title 42 will be rescinded by May 23, but expulsions will continue until then. Washington, DC – The Biden administration has announced that the United States will end its use of Title 42, the contentious policy that prevented most asylum seekers from applying for protection at the country’s southern border with Mexico. In a statement …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Four European countries expel 20 Russian diplomats

Al Jazeera

Russia threatens with ‘an appropriate answer’ as Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia expel a total of 20 diplomats. Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have expelled a total of 20 Russian diplomats, prompting a threat of “an appropriate answer” from the Russian foreign ministry. Estonia’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it had expelled diplomats because they “directly and actively …

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2 years, 9 months ago

US court rules Biden can continue expulsions at US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera

Judges ruled that the arrivals ‘have no right to be in the United States’ and can be immediately expelled. A group of impacted asylum seekers and migrants, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and other non-profit organisations, sued over the expulsion policy known as Title 42, which the administration of President Joe Biden, who took office more than a …

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2 years, 9 months ago

US says it is expelling 12 Russian diplomats for espionage

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The United States announced Monday it is expelling 12 members of the Russian Mission at the United Nations, accusing them of being “intelligence operatives” engaged in espionage. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations said in a statement that the Russian diplomats “have abused their privileges of residency in the United States by engaging in espionage activities …

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Austria expels two Russian diplomats for actions 'incompatible with status'

Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Bribes, treason and hay bales: The chaotic history of expulsions from Congress

2 French journalists expelled from Morocco as tensions revive between Rabat and Paris

‘Academic decline‘: Why are university professors being expelled in Iran?

Tunisian minister denies expulsion of Black refugees

In backlash over their expulsions, 2 Tennessee Democratic lawmakers raised $2M combined

HRW urges Tunisia to suspend expulsions of African refugees

Mass expulsions and mistreatment of migrants reported in Tunisia as tensions spike in port city

Expulsions, walkouts, filibusters: Lawmakers grapple with acrimonious legislative sessions

India asks China to facilitate journalists after recent expulsions

China says its reporters in India ‘about to drop to zero’ amid mutual expulsions

Timeline: Title 42 expulsions at the US-Mexico border

Schumer and Warnock lead call for DOJ investigation into expulsion of Tennessee Democrats

Stunned Republican calls out Tennessee speaker over 'horrible' expulsions

Palestinians face expulsions as Israel tightens hold on West Bank

'The stupidity, it burns': Charlie Sykes warns Tennessee expulsions will hurt GOP everywhere

Hidden expulsions? Schools are removing students, but vague data can mask the reason

US judge blocks Biden’s plan to end Title 42 border expulsions

Greece, Norway order expulsion of Russian envoys amid Ukraine war

US announces end to Title 42 expulsions at Mexico border

Four European countries expel 20 Russian diplomats

US court rules Biden can continue expulsions at US-Mexico border

US says it is expelling 12 Russian diplomats for espionage