The Diplomat
In recent months, the Audiencia Nacional has rejected asylum appeals by Afghans for not accrediting “individualised persecution” or the risk of suffering it, for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinions, membership of a certain social group, gender or sexual orientation, according to rulings published in the Judicial Documentation Centre. In other cases, they were granted asylum.
In the rulings, the judges of the Administrative Chamber underline the need to meet the requirements of Law 12/2009, of 30 October, which regulates the right to asylum, according to Europa Press.
The judges of the eight sections that make up this Chamber will be in charge of reviewing the appeals against the resolutions of the Ministry of the Interior, if any, of the Afghan asylum seekers who have arrived in Spain in recent days.
According to the head of the Department, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Ministry will process “with the utmost urgency” the requests of the citizens who have arrived in Spanish territory on Army flights from Kabul (Afghanistan) as they are of an “extraordinary and special nature”.
Some 1,700 Afghans collaborating with the Spanish Armed Forces and Cooperation in Afghanistan who arrived in the evacuation operation that ended on Friday have requested international protection or asylum in our country.
