"Faith, heart and mind tell me that deportation to Afghanistan is contrary to human dignity. It is important to stand up against this, to speak out and to stop these atrocities immediately," says Deacon Hannes Stickler.
Hannes Stickler is the director of the Diakonissen hospital in Schladming and is known to many Austrians in connection with the case of Hossein Lehrling/Afghanistan in the Diakonissen hospital in Schladming. Together with Hossein's godparents, the Diakonie and many other supporters, he consistently and with great commitment campaigned for Hossein's right to stay. As we all know, Hossein is now allowed to finish his apprenticeship in Austria.
We got to know Hannes as a warm-hearted person for whom dialogue is important and who is concerned about people and their concerns every day. Thank you very much, dear Hannes, for your statement.
Afghanistan is a country at war. Terror, corruption and the fight for survival are the order of the day. Deporting people to the most dangerous country in the world contradicts all basic human and Christian values. At the moment, winter is making the situation in the country even more difficult. Snowstorms are raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan, thousands of people are cut off from the outside world, many people are in dire need, and there are deaths.
We will continue to consistently seek dialogue with those politically responsible and together raise our voice against deportations to Afghanistan. Because deportations to Afghanistan cannot be justified in any way.
#AfghanistanIsNotSafe #BeSafe #FairnessAsylum #LeaveFair #HumanDignity #HumanRights
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3021902/, http://www.fairness-asyl.at/stopdeportationto-afghanistan/, https://www.sichersein.at/2019/12/06/stopdeportationtoafghanistan/, http://asyl.at/de/info/neuemeldungen/stopdeportationtoafghanistan/
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I am also a little involved in helping migrants (conversation and some maths tutoring). And I have to hold back a lot in order not to run around the country screaming and lashing out in the face of the lousy underhandedness with which right-wing politics and parts of the administration play football with the defenceless and the excessively maltreated.
Perhaps some information on this: Hundreds of asylum seekers were sent back to Afghanistan because of an expert whom the Federal Administrative Court (finally) disqualified from being trustworthy due to a lack of impartiality, and whom the court also removed from the list of experts.
Reference to an interview with Hadi Marifat in the ZEIT of 27.11.2019: "German deportation policy bears no relation to reality"; [ https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2019-11/sicherheitslage-afghanistan-abschiebungen-fluechtlinge-menschenrechte/komplettansicht ]
It makes it clear that there is no such thing as a "safe" Afghanistan, not in Kabul, and certainly not in the vastness of the battered country.
We must remain attentive to whether the claims of the "good" expert who was fired are directly or indirectly included in further negative decisions (copy & paste is soooo convenient, and of course without citing the source!).
This also in connection with the ominous "BBU". I find such developments an incendiary blow to a liberal democracy, as this points in the direction of legislation, interpretation of the law and execution of the law in one hand - then the law follows the policy of an authoritarian authority (not to use the D-word).
Sit-in at the Federal Administrative Court? Publication of the names of judges of deportation decisions? After all, the people are publicly condemning "in the name of (half) the Republic". These are no longer administrative proceedings but criminal proceedings.