Quelle: bordermonitoring.eu
On the 1st of January 2016, new amendments of the Law on the Asylum and Refugees (LAR) came into force. Basically, this change allows the State Agency for Refugees (SAR) “to place asylum seekers in closed centers“, impose curfews for already existing open facilities or restrictions on the movement of people that live inside them – this was already published by the State Gazette on October the 16th in 2015. The new regime allows the “detention of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers“, as well. Valeria Ilareva, from the Bulgarian Foundation for Access to Rights (FAR), pointed out that „any detention of asylum seekers exposes them to a high risk of re-traumatisation(…)“.