Norway’s immigration authorities have launched an advertising campaign in print and social media to deter refugees from seeking asylum in the country, following the controversial campaigns launched in Denmark.
The Norwegian directorate of immigration sent a message out on Twitter on Friday, and again on Monday morning, warning Afghans planning to cross the country’s northern border with Russia that they risked forced repatriation — not simply to Moscow but all the way back to Kabul.
Joran Kallmyr, a state secretary in Norway’s justice ministry, confirmed that the tweet was the start of a campaign which would be followed up on Facebook and by newspaper adverts in Russia and other countries.
“Denmark has seen good results from doing this,” he told Norway’s state broadcaster NRK. Mr Kallmyr is a ministerial appointee from the anti-immigration Progress Party.
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