A Dossier by Saxon Refugee Council
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Introduction A Dossier by Saxon Refugee Council Compiled by „Reto“ Project Office 1 3,377 people were deported by theIntroduction State of Saxony in 2016. Ever since Saxon Refugee Council documents human rights violations in the course of deportations, the NGO TABLE OF CONTENTS and others were forced to observe how one human right after the other was levered out. Due to the relentless pace Introduction 03 of deportation, stories like those described here just need Deportation Problematized 05 to be told. Legal Tipps 14 In that year, Saxon Refugee Council and other NGOs Deportation and Custody 27 were forced to document the violation of one human Press Reports 31 right after the after, following th relentless pace of the Foreigners’ Departments. In 2017 we publicly want to Minor Inquiries 34 document those human rights violations and critically Start to Act! 38 accompany them. The press release that accompanied Local Counseling Centers 39 the publication of this dossier can be found here. Individual Cases 42 Press Releases 48 We already had to document the separations of two families for the year of 2017. Another family was Table of Links 50 separated during a Dublin deportation. Much more families will be separated already. In the meantime, it turned out that the public gets to know only about “spontaneous” family separations. Starting with a political problematization of deportations followed by legal tipps up to individual cases you can inform yourself here on “Blackbox Deportation” and its practice in Saxony. Editor: Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat e.V. / Project Office Reto /Dammweg 5 / 01097 Dresden Text and Editing: Mark Gärtner und Thomas Hoffmann, Thanks go to Michaela Ferber, Christina Riebesecker, Steffen Miroll and Patrick Irmer Design: Julia Hartmann, Steffen Miroll, Mark Gärtner English Translation: Mark Gärtner 2 Introduction to vomit and suffocated on his vomit.” Introduction (Oulios 2015: 51f) 1. Violence and deportation go hand in “The 40-year old mother Joy Gardner hand. Irregular reports about single suffocated in her apartment in 1993 after cases cause a short outcry but quickly she was tied and gagged by the police disappear in public discourse. Only, those men responsible for her deportation [as are not single cases. Deportations are happened in Great Britain, SFR]. Hands enforcement measures, enforcing means, tied behind the back, tied feet, police men something needs to be executed against who push down the head or create the will of another person. Against the massive pressure on the chest of the will of people who do not want to go people affected – measures like these and back. Who do not want to go back so similar ones repeatedly caused people’s badly that they are willed to commit death in the course of their deportation. suicide even if they do not see any other As it happened in the case of 27-year old option in their situation. The freelancing Nigerian Samson Chukwu dying in a author Miltiadis Oulious presents Swiss deportation camp in 2001 or in the numbers from Great Britain. 57 people case of 31-year old Christian Ecole Ebune under threat of deportation committed in the terminal of a Budapest airport a suicide in that country only between year before. Both of them had tried to 1989 and 2006 (cf. ebd.). Not all German escape from the authorities. The 27-year states with detention centers for old Palestinian Khaled Abuyarifeh deportation have statistics like these. On succeeded in preventing his first the basis of the numbers of those who do, deportation. He protested what caused one can speak of at least eight suicide the pilot to reject Abuyarifeh to board the attempts and 17 self-injuries in those plane. When Swiss officials tried to prisons ever since 2012. They expose the deport him the second time they tied him unstable situation of innocent people, to a wheelchair and gave him additional violently detained for the purpose of sedatives. In an elevator Abuzarifeh had their deportation (cf. BT-Drs. 18/7196 : 108ff) 1 Original: „Die 40-jährige Mutter Joy Gardner Kameruner Christian Ecole Ebune ein Jahr zuvor im erstickte 1993, nachdem die mit der Abschiebung Abfertigungsbereich des Budapester Flughafens. beauftragten Polizisten die Jamaikanerin in ihrer Beide hatten versucht, vor den Beamten zu fliehen. Wohnung gefesselt und geknebelt hatten [so Der 27-jährige Palästinenser Khaled Abuzarifeh geschehen in Großbritannien, Anm. SFR]. Auf dem hatte seine erste Abschiebung verhindern können, Rücken gefesselte Hände, Fesseln an den Füßen, weil er protestierte und der Pilot sich daraufhin Polizisten, die zusätzlich den Kopf nach unten weigerte mitzuwirken. Beim zweiten Versuch hebeln oder massiven Druck auf den Brustkorb der hatten Schweizer Beamte ihn an einen Rollstuhl Betroffenen ausüben – solche und ähnliche gefesselt und ihm zusätzliche Beruhigungsmittel 3 Maßnahmen führten wiederholt zum Tod bei verabreicht. Im Fahrstuhl am Flughafen musste Abschiebungen. Bei dem 27-jährigen Nigerianer Abuzarifeh sich übergeben und erstickte am Samson Chukwu, der 2001 in einem Schweizer Erbrochenen.“ (Oulios 2015: 51f) Abschiebelager starb, ebenso wie beim 31-jährigen Introduction many smaller, but even more complex Also Saxony deported 3.377 people in and multifaceted question result out of it, 2016. And in Saxony too, violence was we want to show people what not avoided. Saxon Refugee Council deportation means. We want to expose perceived the year of 2016 as incredibly the problems that come with deportation brutal. The documentation of the council and to present the right to move and the and other NGOs mirrors concrete human right to stay for everyone. We want to rights violations, giving that perception give legal advice to people who want to substance. Various actors from civil stay and show them where they could get society noticed how one after the other support. We want to present the stories moral and legal line was crossed step by of people who had to endure deportation. step. In the relentless pace that was We want that people think about what dictated by the deportation measures, happened to 3.377 people who lived in families were separated, pregnant and Saxon cities, towns and villages until sick people were deported and kids were 2016. So people might ask themselves if handcuffed. Our point is: those are not the price that is paid here could be too single cases. The violence that is high. And who may ask themselves for expressed in Saxon deportation practice what a price is being paid here actually? as well is the answer to the political For security or for the nation already? question raised by escape an migration. And where does the first start and the Deportations, the concept of “Safe last end? Countries of Origin” as well as the externalization of EU-borders all The political rhetoric as well as the together are measurements that speak concrete measurements in legislation the language of those who want to and its enforcement – all of that currently prevent people from escaping. We do not speaks a different language. US-president hold those answers for tenable. We hold Donald Trump’s executive orders on those answers for only temporary asylum and migration policy are the only measures who only postpone the answer most prominent examples. But other to that question. We know what those voices are needed who speak another measurements do to people, everyone language. This must be possible in knows that. The only question is if the Saxony too. This is why we will publicly individual wants to look at what happens document and critically supervise the in the countries of origin and on the human rights violations of the year of escape routes. And at what happens 2017 here on our website. We call upon again and again in Saxony as well everybody who shares our position to whenever people are taken out of their position him*herself against deportation, apartments in the middle of the night. We to participate in exposing its faults and to want to enable people to look at it with support people under threat of this dossier because we want to give deportation with all options available. another answer to the political question We want the right to move to become of escape and migration. And exactly reality. because the question is so big and so 4 Deportation Problematized knowing exactly, how many human Deportation rights violations like these were enforced Problematized in Saxony. In April 2017, Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper reported on the deportation Saxon Deportation Practice of 17 people from Leipzig/ Halle airport to Tunisia. According to the article, the deportees’ body holes were checked – in The current deportation practice of order to prevent self-injuries and/ or Saxony is rigid and brutal. It is suicide attempts. Thereby, deportation characterized by a number of human only works if it ensures sheer survival. rights violations. Until now, we The human right to physical integrity is documented separations of families, the suspended for 17 human beings so in the deportation of sick people possessing aftermath one can say deportations are certificates confirming their illness and enforced in a humane way. inability to travel, the deportation of pregnant women as well as the captivation of minors. All of that Human rights violations like these happened over the course of the last year. happen again and again and every time when deportations are carried out. Often the claim is raised, those human rights In February 2017, Saxon Refugee violations would be an exception of an Councul reported on a new level of enforcement act that „concludes due escalation concerning family process of law“. But this is not the case, separations. Even though a mother was those violations are the rule, they are diagnosed an obstacle for deportation by inherent to deportations.