Local media in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday reported that more than 100 Syrian asylum seekers staged a demonstration in front of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the city of Dortmund.

Local media in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday reported that more than 100 Syrian asylum seekers staged a demonstration in front of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the city of Dortmund.

“Majid Murshid”, 52 years journalist, one of the protesters announced to start a hunger strike with 25 others planned to join him, in light of staff omission in the Federal Office responding to their demands despite the understanding they showed.

According to the local site “Ruhr Nakherist” a number of neo-Nazis tried to harass the demonstrators, the police arrested five of them.

According to the website for the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees in Nuremberg, the delay in the work on some of the asylum applications submitted by the Syrians, which is not according to what they hope, is because of the large number of application for refugees from Kosovo.

Demonstrators expressed their gratitude to the government and the German people and organizations that save the Syrian refugees, demanding support in learning German for asylum seekers, and to overlook the application as provided for in the Dublin Convention, for returning asylum seekers to the first European country they entered, pointing the poor handling by some European countries such as Bulgaria with refugees.