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CPOY 70 Interpretive Project Bronze: Return to Sender

In december 2014 the Danish Government presented a new report concluding that it would be safe for Eritrean refugees in Denmark to return home to the country they just fled. A conclusion far different from Amnesty Internationals statement, and the many experts who criticized the report. At a closed down hospital outside Copenhagen, Denmark, a group of Eritreans makes a decision. They want to tell about the conditions they fled from. But they need to tell the story as a group, and anonymous. Because they are all concerned about the consequences for their families back home. These are their stories, as they tell them:

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Slide 5 of 9
December 2, 2014
She flees the country alone. 7 months pregnant she arrives at the central station in Copenhagen. Her husband never shows up, he´s stuck in Sudan. She chose to come to Denmark because she heard danes were engaged in human rights. She assumed they had to know what was going on in Eritrea. But as she and her unborn child arrives Denmark, det Danish government concludes it will be safe for her to return.
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