Kosovo is no safe haven along the dark road west
Migrants seeking temporary refuge are met with little protection.
|2018.12.10
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“I have no time; the weather will get worse. It will be very cold to cross through and sleep in the mountains.”
Only 12.8 percent of asylum requests in Kosovo have been approved compared to 46 percent of successful applications in EU countries, where most asylum seekers actually intend to stay.
"The deportees were denied the right to be heard and judged by the competent public authority.”
“As a bare minimum, any national or non-national residing in a country should enjoy the right to a fair trial.”
Ardit Kika
Ardit Kika has completed his BA in Political Science at the University of Prishtina. He has worked as a journalist in Kallxo.com and Prishtina Insight. Currently, he is working as a freelance journalist mainly covering politics, culture and human rights issues. Ardit is a K2.0 Human Rights Journalism Fellowship program fellow (2018 cycle).
This story was originally written in Albanian.