---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Ashworth <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:19 AM Subject: [sudans-john-ashworth] Italy Flies Migrants Back to Sudan To: Group <[email protected]>
Activists Angry as Rome Flies Migrants Back to Sudan Breitbart by VIRGINIA HALE 27 Aug 2016 Struggling as 10,000 people arrive on its shores each week, Italy has begun to send migrants back to Sudan on charter flights. The Italian government repatriated the first 48 migrants to Sudan on Wednesday after striking a deal with the North African country earlier this month. The agreement, which comes as 10,000 migrants are arriving in Italy each week, has been met with outrage from activists. The four dozen Sudanese were taken from Ventimiglia, near the French border, and flown back to their homeland on a chartered EgyptAir flight on Wednesday. Earlier this month, more than 100 migrants broke through police barriers in the town and made their way to France. Situated on the French border, officials fear the town could become a new Calais, referring to the port’s so-called “jungle” camps, from which migrants attempt to illegally enter Britain. Sudanese officials identified the first 48 people who could be deported out of a group of hundreds of African men who have been staying in the French-Italian border town. Three activists from the “No Borders” network, which demands European taxpayers house, clothe and pay unlimited numbers of migrants, were arrested climbing onto a radar tower at Malpensa Airport. Speaking to il Fatto Quotidiano at the Milan airport, protesters said: “We knew two of the guys on that plane well. “Until yesterday they were in the Red Cross centre, they felt safe and they were preparing everything to ask for asylum.” The migrants were flown back to Sudan from Turin-Caselle airport, more than an hour from Milan, so that protesters could not interfere with the flight’s progress. Immigration lawyer Alessandra Ballerini blasted the flight as “a mass deportation to a country where fundamental rights are violated and where their lives are in danger.” Some politicians opposed the move. Luigi Manconi, a senator for the ruling, centre-left Democratic Party reacted to the deportations with anger. “How can we say that Sudan guarantees the protection of their human rights? How can we put in danger the lives of these people forcibly returned?”, the senator asked. Mr Manconi added: “We can not run the risk of returning anyone without proper guarantees on his safety.” http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/27/rome-flies-migrants-back-sudan/ END ______________________ John Ashworth [email protected] +254 725 926 297 (Kenya mobile) +211 919 695 362 (South Sudan mobile) +44 787 976 8030 (UK mobile) +88 216 4334 0735 (Thuraya satphone) Skype: jashworth1 PO Box 52002 - 00200, Nairobi, Kenya This is a personal e-mail address and the contents do not necessarily reflect the views of any organisation -- -- The content of this message does not necessarily reflect John Ashworth's views. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, John Ashworth is not the author of the content and the source is always cited. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sudan-john-ashworth" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sudan-john-ashworth- [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.za/ group/sudan-john-ashworth --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sudans-john-ashworth" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sudans-john-ashworth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opK2ZWSkypsJAbf9XveTmXV0AHH6O-ptymrC1rLt_8ggQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
