Censored document reveals increased transit facilities for the USA to use EU airports to move people
By : StateWatch - Sunday December 18, 2005 EU-USA: Rendition and removing refugees raise the same issue: Censored document reveals increased transit facilities for the USA to use EU airports to move people around the world There has been an informal agreement between the EU and the USA that flights to and from the USA can stop-over in transit at EU airports since around 1998 (see EU docs no: 13554/97 and 6541/1/98). The USA requested these "facilities" into order to send people back to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. No figures (...)
read more, comments... Amsterdam fire kills 11
By : Amsterdam - Thursday October 27, 2005 A fire broke out early today in a prison complex for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 15, a police spokesman said. The identity of the dead was not immediately known. Officials said a number of detainees escaped during the fire. A prisoner told the Dutch television station NOS that guards initially did not take prisoners’ warnings of a fire seriously and told them nothing was wrong. "They didn’t open (...)
read more, comments... Incident at Manhattan’s LGBT Center!
By : NJ IMC Vince - Thursday January 6, 2005 Tuesday, November 23, 2004 was a cold, cloudy autumn day in Manhattan. The meeting I was going to at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on 208 W. 13th Street, was scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. I left my house in New Jersey at a quarter to four in the afternoon in order to have ample time to get into the city and to find parking. Getting through the Lincoln Tunnel, at rush hour, can be challenging. Not everyone is considerate, or merges in an orderly fashion. In (...)
read more, comments... Gambling with death
By : Green Left - Tuesday June 17, 2003 Gambling with death BY MAREE KENNY "We get this guy out of bed early in the morning...he clings on to the bedstead. My job is to unwind his fingers. Struggling, Shouting. He won’t go." These words, spoken by an officer employed at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre during 1999, are part of a report produced by the Coalition for the Protection of Asylum Seekers Facing Deportation (COPAS). The officer is describing the forcible deportation of "Anthony", an Algerian asylum (...)
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