BALADI NEWS
Mohieddin Saho, a Syrian refugee who were at risk of deportation from Germany, has received church asylum in the city of Rothenburg after the German authorities decided to deport him to Spain, it being the first European country he entered.
The first attempt to deport Mohieddin to Spain failed, prompting the authorities to set another date last Thursday.
The blind man, originally from Idlib, spent most of his hours are at deportee detention areas, waiting for the procedures to resume.
Saho’s story received great sympathy in Germany, with Saho’s host family, husband and wife who arranged a room for him to live in the church, expressing their full support especially with his determination to overcome his circumstances and health condition, and look for a better future in this country.
German churches grant protection to refugees facing difficult situations, called "hardship cases." They then present a request to BAMF for further examination. The main aim is to prevent imminent deportations of refugees into dangerous situations, according to DW.
Saho was accepted to study English literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, but his fear of deportation prevents him from studying.
His hots family stated that if German authorities fail to deport Mohieddin until the end of September, his asylum application might be reconsidered.
German authorities consider church asylum as hiding. According to media reports, The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees turned down most of church asylum cases in the first four months of 2019.
Saho had graduated from university in January 2019, and after failing to obtain Turkish citizenship and the end of his stay, he came to Germany via Spain, to apply for asylum in the state of Bavaria, but was subsequently rejected under the Dublin Regulation signed between the European Union countries.
Source: Zaman Al-wasl.