Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - Last year, thanks to Saxony-Anhalt's hardship commission, 18 rejected asylum seekers were initially given a one-year residence permit for urgent humanitarian reasons. Among them are two families with five minor children, said the chair of the hardship commission, Monika Schwenke, at the presentation of the committee's report on Monday in Magdeburg.
In 2021, the commission approved a total of eleven applications for hardship cases, Interior Minister Tamara Zieschang (CDU) and her predecessor Michael Richter (CDU) agreed. The people came from Iran, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Iraq, Kosovo, the Russian Federation and Turkey.
