{"id":4083,"date":"2025-12-24T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/24\/germany-deports-convicted-syrian-to-damascus-shift-immigration-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:15:32","slug":"germany-deports-convicted-syrian-to-damascus-shift-immigration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/24\/germany-deports-convicted-syrian-to-damascus-shift-immigration-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Deporting Convicted Syrian Citizen to Damascus Signals Shift in Immigration Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since the outbreak of Syria&#8217;s civil war in 2011, the German government has deported a convicted Syrian citizen back to his home country; an action, alongside the deportation of another individual to Afghanistan, seen as a sign of a shift in Berlin&#8217;s immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the German Interior Ministry, the 37-year-old man, convicted in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on charges including armed robbery, causing serious bodily harm, and extortion, was deported after serving his prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>German officials stated that the individual was transferred to Damascus via a direct flight, with the Federal Police accompanying him to the Syrian capital and handing him over to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>This deportation process took place on Tuesday, December 23, 2025. At the same time, the German Interior Ministry announced the deportation of another individual to Afghanistan, without providing further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany has deported a convicted Syrian citizen to Damascus for the first time since 2011, signaling a shift in immigration policies with another deportation to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","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=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}