Netherlands: Noureddine El Amrani

The Dutch government was forced after the constant pressures imposed by Doctors Without Borders and civil and human rights associations on the one hand, and the continuous media coverage that exposed the poor health and accommodation conditions of asylum seekers. It was avoided if the Dutch authorities dealt responsibly with people who were left without shelter, without health facilities and medical care inside and outside the center in the adjacent squares, where tents were set up by volunteers and advocates for asylum seekers. The Dutch authorities were forced to transfer all residents of the aforementioned center to different cities and villages of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Utrecht, Almere, Zaudbroek and Groningen, while about 80 refugees refused to leave the center. In a strongly worded letter to the Ministry of Justice, the municipality of Westerfold, where the asylum seekers center is located, expressed its anger and dissatisfaction with the decision to allow a tent to be set up outside the center Neither the Ministry nor the COA responded to the request for an immediate withdrawal of the tent This came after civil non-governmental organizations denounced the catastrophic conditions in which the refugees live in the center, and the opposition parties called on the Secretary of State for Migration and Asylum Affairs to intervene and take responsibility for harboring the refugees, especially since the aforementioned center recently witnessed the death of a baby in circumstances that were said to be Mysteriousness, which prompted some parliamentarians to demand the necessity of conducting an investigation to reveal the circumstances that led to the death of the infant