Most member states are against proposals to ease conditions for asylum-seekers in the union, despite vivid testimonies to the failures of the current system.
When Abdulaev Movladi left Chechnya in 2008 he wanted to join his brother in Austria who had been given political refugee status there, after the war waged by Russian authorities that levelled down the Muslim province in the north Caucasus.
"I had visited an Islamic institute, which was why I was being followed [by the Russia...
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