In the NewsThousands Flee Iran as Noose Tightens by Steve Stecklow and Farnaz Fassihi, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Dec 11, 2009 2008 Statistical OverviewBased on data received or estimated by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of Iranian refugees at the end of 2008 was 69,061 of which 13,851 were assisted by the UNHCR. Another 13,329 Iranian asylum seekers applied for asylum during 2008. The three countries that received the largest numbers of new applications from Iranians were the United Kingdom (2,585), Turkey (2,116), and Germany (815).
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Press ReleaseOctober 26, 2009 -
Turkey releases Iranian refugees in
belated compliance with European Court
Two Iranian refugees held in detention in Turkey in defiance of a European Court of Human Rights ruling were
finally released on Friday. The Court judgment of 22 September 2009 had
condemned their detention as arbitrary and unlawful.
They had been held since
June 2008 for more than sixteen months.
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