Adam Bemma

  • Airport Asylum Seekers Find Freedom – Southeast Asia Dispatches

    BANGKOK – In the past year Southeast Asia provided temporary shelter to two asylum seekers from the Middle East fleeing persecution. Hassan Alkontar and Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun plead for asylum from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok airports. They were resettled to Canada. But this has led to a backlash online in Malaysia, Thailand, and Canada — where…

    Adam Bemma

  • Malaysia detains Hassan Al Kontar after removing him from airport

    Al Kontar, 37, had been living in Kuala Lumpur International Airport since March, after being denied entry to Cambodia. Bangkok, Thailand – Syrian refugee Hassan Al Kontar was arrested on Monday by Malaysian police for remaining in a “forbidden area” of Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s terminal two. Al Kontar, 37, had been living inside KLIA’s…

    Adam Bemma

  • Syrian Stuck at Airport Turns to Social Media – Southeast Asia Dispatches

    KUALA LUMPUR – Thirty-seven year-old Syrian asylum seeker Hassan Al Kontar uses social media to share his story of life at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Because of Hassan’s posts, volunteers from Malaysia to Canada have taken up his cause. Adam Bemma met with Hassan at KLIA2. He’s been stuck in limbo hoping to be resettled…

    Adam Bemma

  • Hassan Al Kontar: A Life in Limbo – CBC The World this Weekend

    KUALA LUMPUR – Hassan Al Kontar is a 37-year-old Syrian living at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for six months. Human rights defenders inside Malaysia have advised him not to seek asylum in the country because it’s not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Canadian volunteers are trying to bring Al Kontar to Canada…

    Adam Bemma
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