A recent government decree
quashing asylum seekers' rights to appeal against rejections of
their bids for asylum status "suppresses guarantees" and must be
changed, the first president of the Cassation Court, Giovanni
Canzio, said Tuesday.
Canzio appealed to Justice Minister Andrea Orlando to restore
the asylum seekers' appeal rights.
Orlando responded by saying asylum seekers' rights had not
been restricted.
He said the aim of the decree is "in fact to reinforce the
guarantees of the first-instance ruling and ensure the efficacy
of the migrant's safeguards, but at the same time to ready the
necessary tools to avert the risk that the courts are
overwhelmed by the impact of social phenomena that have assumed
dimensions unknown in the past".
The decree only allows an appeal to the Cassation Court,
Italy's highest court of appeal, which rules on legal issues.
The first degree of appeals, on the merits of cases, has been
eliminated by the decree.
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