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Bulgaria: Appeals for Help in Arevik Shmavonyan's Deportation Case

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Eastern & Central Europe, Armenia, Bulgaria, Digital Activism, Ethnicity & Race, Governance, Human Rights, International Relations, Law, Migration & Immigration, Refugees

Svetla Encheva [1] (BUL), Maya Markova of Maya's Corner [2] and Legal Clinic for Refugees and Immigrants [3], a Bulgarian NGO, appeal for help in the case of Arevik Shmavonyan, a pregnant Armenian citizen who is awaiting deportation from Bulgaria at the Special Centre for Temporary Accommodation of Foreigners in Busmantsi (described by some as “the Bulgarian Guantanamo [4]“).