Amnesty international and three other international organizations on human rights issued a statement, urging Austria to stop detaining children and halt the deportations of well-integrated foreign families which are denied asylum.

The statement also calls on Austria to better protect the rights of non-Austrian minors and become more lenient about allowing young asylum seekers and their parents to stay on humanitarian grounds, Associated Press reports.

Several days ago two 8-year-old twins were taken into custody with their father and deported back to their native Kosovo. The children’s mother, who is in psychiatric care, stayed in Austria. The family had lived in Austria since 2004.

A 14-year-old Armenian girl disappeared before police could pick her up from school and deport her. Meanwhile, her mother, is under suicide watch and has been hospitalized, RFE/RL reports.