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Urgent - charter expulsions to Afghanistan Monday/Tuesday

X-posting from NCADC news service | 23.07.2005 10:33 | Migration | Birmingham | London

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Urgent - charter expulsions to Afghanistan Monday/Tuesday

Europe should be ashamed of itself - Expulsions to Kabul
Next Monday or Tuesday young failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan in the UK will be put on charter plane at one of the London airports, the charter will then travel to Paris, pick up more young failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan in France for onward transit to Kabul, at least 60 Afghans are expected to be on board.

At the moment know one knows who is operating this charter flight. Desperately need to start finding concrete info on charter flights, both the airlines below are currently operating charter flights carrying deportees from the UK and Ireland.

Channel Express
 http://www.channel-express.co.uk/passenger/index.html

Air Partner (approved service provider for deportation charters from Ireland till 2007)
 http://www.airpartner.com/res10/01.htm

If anyone on this list can get information on above please contact NCADC immediately, both these companies are hiding behind the UK Home Office, Channel Express is operating as a second party.

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The Interior Ministers of the 5 largest European countries (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Britain) announced at the beginning of June that they would be organising joint charter flights to increase the number of deportations from their countries in disregard of international conventions and human rights.

The first destination is set to be Afghanistan. Indications are that the expulsion will take place on Monday or Tuesday 25/26th July: there has been a sharp increase of the number of Afghans picked up and placed in detention centres and the Afghan consul in France has been asked to confirm identities with a view to issuing travel documents.

To choose Kabul as the first destination for these charter expulsions one must be blind and dumb to the realities of the world and to the failure of previous attempts to suppress irregular migration. The situation in Kabul has never been as explosive as in the last few months. The lethal attacks and their victims have been occurring with breathtaking speed in the run up to the elections due to take place on 18 September of this year.
The provinces of Paktika, Uruzgan, Khôst, Badakhshan, Kounar, Helmand, and the region of Kunduz have experienced an increase in violence. In other provinces such as Takhar, Afghans have risen up against corrupt or incompetent local authorities. Even in Kabul, the so-called secure capital, a girls' school was attacked in broad daylight on 22 June by the Taliban. Furthermore today an epidemic of cholera is raging (by the 14 June 2,000 cases had been reported). On July 7, the NGO Human Rights Watch published a report condemning the actions of warlords and criticising the inaction of NATO forces, theoretically in charge of maintaining security in the country.

It is incredible that the European Union is proposing to return people who have risked their lives to find peace and security to such danger. These collective expulsions will have serious consequences for Europe. The symbolic value of the charters, which the governments of Europe hope will dissuade people tempted to migrate, serve above all to shame Europe. The images of dozens of people surrounded by dozens of European police will resound in the countries of origin as acts of hostility to the entire populations of those countries.
These policies represent a threat to those deported, to democracy and to relations between West and East, North and South and as such, should be abandoned.

What you can do today - fax/email the Council of the European Union the Presidency is held by the UK. Model letter attached, copy/amend/write your own.

Att: Interim President Mr. Tony Blair
Council of the European Union
Rue de la Loi, 175 B-1048 Bruxelles
Telephone 00 322 285 61 11
Fax 00 32 02 235 49 77
 public.info@consilium.eu.int

Inquiries/further informatin contact:
Liza Schuster
 liza.schuster@compas.ox.ac.uk

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