{"id":20574,"date":"2026-08-29T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/european-parliament-afghanistan-asylum-seekers-return-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:00:14","slug":"european-parliament-afghanistan-asylum-seekers-return-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/european-parliament-afghanistan-asylum-seekers-return-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament to Examine Return of Asylum Seekers to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament&#8217;s Subcommittee on Human Rights is due to examine on Thursday the issue of returning migrants and asylum seekers from European Union member states to Afghanistan, a matter that has been placed on its agenda in light of the human rights situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, members of the European Parliament will discuss the consequences of sending asylum seekers back to Afghanistan at the meeting. The review comes as the human rights situation in Afghanistan remains one of the main concerns of international institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion follows meetings with representatives of the Taliban administration. However, the European Parliament has said the assessment of the issue will be carried out with Afghanistan&#8217;s human rights situation taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>The Subcommittee on Human Rights is one of the European Parliament&#8217;s specialist bodies and follows issues related to human rights violations and international obligations. The return of Afghan asylum seekers has become one of the contentious issues in Europe in recent years, especially after the Taliban returned to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Parliament to review the return of migrants and asylum seekers to Afghanistan amid concerns over human rights conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}