Pakistani subjected to controversial ‘charter deportation’ from Austria

The man had recently recovered from surgery and had was also seeking asylum in Austria


Web Desk April 24, 2015
PHOTO: REUTERS

A Pakistani asylum seeker was deported on Friday from Vienna’s Schwechat airport under the controversial “charter deportation”, Austrian paper Wiener Zeitung reported.

According to information provided by the immigration police, there had been EU-wide organised “charter deportations” – flights chartered solely for the purpose of deportations.

Police officers had on Wednesday led the Pakistani man to immigration who had recently recovered from a surgery.

This is the first case of a Pakistani being deported from Austria via the ‘charter deportation’.

No intervention

 

Rights activists have argued that the process of 'charter deportation' presents a problem in that it is almost impossible to intervene since refugees are taken via the cargo area.

In the past, there have been reports of ill-treatment of such refugees by police.

"Only a few days ago, hundreds drowned in the Mediterranean. At the same time people are being deported by charter flights to countries where they may face death," laments Numan, a refugee activist and student from Pakistan.

This article originally appeared on Wiener Zeitung

COMMENTS (3)

SyedPk | 9 years ago | Reply @rk singh, I have never seen any turks causing such problems anywhere in EU... they are well integrated in the society here unlike us south Asians. @ Abdul, Bro ... AUSTRIA as a country exist far away from and independently of Australia, in the heart of Europe.
rk singh | 9 years ago | Reply I dont blame Austria. The Turkish populace there have made the country a garbage dump of Islamic brotherhood ideology.
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