{"id":381586,"date":"2018-10-19T04:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T04:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:42:05","slug":"prison-planet-com-south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb South Korea doesn\u2019t want Muslim refugees and denies refugee status to 400 Yemenis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/10\/south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis\/\"><strong>Voice Of Europe<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>After an outrage among its citizens, South Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/2168952\/south-korea-denies-refugee-status-yemenis-who-arrived-jeju\">refused to give refugee status<\/a> to around 400 Yemeni asylum seekers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p>Local people here are worried, we have all read about the problems that immigrants have caused in Europe \u2014 in Germany and France in particular \u2014 and we do not want that to happen here<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, a new visa programme that was used by the Yemeni asylum seekers to enter South Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/07\/protests-in-south-korea-against-muslim-refugees-we-dont-want-to-become-like-europe\/\">led to protests<\/a> and the launch of a petition.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen that is known for being an Islamic society, is in a war with Saudi Arabia and Muslim asylum seekers have left the country in droves.<\/p>\n<p>But many South Koreans <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/09\/overwhelming-majority-of-south-koreans-dont-want-muslim-refugees-poll\/\">don\u2019t want Muslim refugees<\/a>. More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.president.go.kr\/petitions\/269548?navigation=best-petitions\">714,000<\/a> South Koreans <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/09\/south-koreans-begin-protesting-as-they-dont-want-muslim-refugees-in-their-country\/\">signed a petition <\/a>against their government\u2019s refugee friendly migration policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/10\/south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Thursday, October 18, 2018  at  6:11 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/south-korea-doesnt-want-muslim-refugees-and-denies-refugee-status-to-400-yemenis.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice Of EuropeOctober 18, 2018 After an outrage among its citizens, South Korea refused to give refugee status to around 400 Yemeni asylum seekers. Local people here are worried, we have all read about the problems that immigrants have caused in Europe \u2014 in Germany and France in particular \u2014 and we do not want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}