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Secondly, Kurds in Sweden and Finland – including genuine terrorist suspects – should be granted minimum human rights protections, that are instead overlooked in the MoU. l and regional human rights obligations is a major shortcoming of the agreement. The Nordic countries, and Sweden in particular, are home of a huge Kurdish diaspora coming from both Turkey and other countries with a significant Kurdish population, that are not part of the Council of Europe. Many are political refugees or fax lists asylum seekers, including some whose extradition has already been requested by Turkey.

According to the principle of non-refoulement (Article 33 of the Refugees Convention), refugees cannot be expelled or returned to territories where their life or freedom would be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

Those who have already been recognised the status of refugees or other forms of international protection must be considered as automatically excluded from deportation, as it is assumed that the hosting state has already established the genuine presence of a well-founded fear of persecution (Article 1.A.2), and the absence of barring causes such as the commission of international crimes or other serious non-political crimes (Article 1.F a and b). As per applicable refugee law, asylum seekers whose request is still pending (and even those whose request has not been filed yet) should be granted the same protection, and any extradition should be suspended at least until the end of a due asylum procedure. The process of verification of the entitlement to international protection should be given priority and prevalence over extradition requests.