Expulsion ! Des passagers restent debout, l’avion revient, l’expulsé est débarqué
Pierre Guerrini, Médiapart, le 24 juin 2017
►https://blogs.mediapart.fr/pierre-guerrini/blog/240617/expulsion-des-passagers-restent-debout-lavion-revient-lexpulse-est-d
I piloti disobbediscono ai rimpatri forzati
La disobbedienza civile di alcuni comandanti di #Lufthansa, #Air_Berlin e #Germanwings. Sono oltre 330 le deportazioni fallite nel 2016 perché il personale di volo ha preferito seguire le regole sulla libertà del «passeggero»
▻http://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/piloti-disobbediscono-ai-rimpatri-forzati
#désobéissance #résistance #pilotes #avions #asile #migrations #renvois #réfugiés #renvois_forcés #désobéissance_civile
cc @reka @albertocampiphoto
Expulsion ! Des #passagers restent debout, l’avion revient, l’expulsé est débarqué
Dans toute situation la manière dont réagit un #corps peut tout changer. Du moins faut-il, peut-on le croire.
Samim Bigzad: UK Government’s attempt to deport Afghan asylum seeker fails after pilot refuses to take off
Passengers alerted to man’s plight by campaigners raise concerns with cabin crew at Heathrow
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/samim-bigzad-deport-uk-afghan-asylum-seeker-taliban-death-threats-gov
Londra, il pilota si rifiuta di deportare il rifugiato in Afghanistan
#Samim_Bigzad è un ragazzo afgano di 22 anni che ha presentato richiesta di asilo in Gran Bretagna dove vive dal 2015. Lo scorso luglio le autorità britanniche hanno deciso il suo rimpatrio nonostante lui abbia ricevuto minacce di morte in Afghanistan. Così alla fine di agosto Samin stava per essere imbarcato a forza su un volo della #Turkish_Airline ma, a sorpresa, il pilota alla guida dell’aereo si è rifiutato di decollare dopo aver saputo che 3.600 persone avevano firmato una petizione al governo per dare più tempo al ragazzo di provare la bontà della sua richiesta:
▻http://lepersoneeladignita.corriere.it/2017/09/02/londra-il-pilota-si-rifiuta-di-deportare-il-rifugiato-i
Pilots across Germany are blocking the deportation of asylum seekers
Pilots working for #Lufthansa and #Eurowings have halted over 200 deportation flights so far.
▻http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pilots-across-germany-are-blocking-deportation-asylum-seekers-1650072
German pilots refuse to carry out deportations
Pilots across Germany are stopping planned deportations of rejected asylum seekers. At the same time, refugees are appealing their deportation orders in record numbers - and winning.
▻http://www.dw.com/en/german-pilots-refuse-to-carry-out-deportations/a-41638832?maca=en-Twitter-sharing
Des pilotes allemands refusent les «vols spéciaux» vers l’#Afghanistan
Depuis le début de l’année plus de 220 vols au départ de l’Allemagne à destination de l’Afghanistan ont été annulés parce que les pilotes refusent d’être impliqués dans des expulsions de demandeurs d’asile déboutés.
▻http://www.rts.ch/info/monde/9143304-des-pilotes-allemands-refusent-les-vols-speciaux-vers-l-afghanistan-.htm
German pilots ground 222 flights after refusing to deport asylum seekers
The decision not to carry a passenger was made on a ’case by case decision’, says Lufthansa spokesman Michael Lamberty
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-pilots-refuse-deport-asylum-seekers-lufthansa-angela-merkel-mi
Germania - Decine di rimpatri annullati dai piloti in Renania Settentrionale/Vestfalia
- Düsseldorf. I piloti continuano a rifiutarsi di trasportare richiedenti asilo. Nei primi nove mesi dell’anno sono stati annullati 40 rimpatri solo a Düsseldorf.
– In tutta la Germania, nello stesso periodo, sono stati 222 i casi in cui i piloti si sono rifiutati di eseguire il rimpatrio.
▻http://www.meltingpot.org/Germania-Decine-di-rimpatri-annullati-dai-piloti-in-Renania.html
No, German pilots aren’t defying their government by refusing to deport asylum seekers
On Wednesday UK publication the Independent picked up a story in the German press about pilots refusing to take rejected asylum seekers back to Afghanistan. These rare decisions have nothing to do with the asylum process, though.
▻https://www.thelocal.de/20171207/no-german-pilots-arent-defying-their-government-by-refusing-to-deport-asylu
Israeli pilots refuse to deport Eritrean and Sudanese migrants to Africa
At least three pilots for Israel’s flag carrier publish declarations publicly refusing to take part in the forced deportation of asylum seekers should they be asked to. The Israeli government is giving tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers a stark choice: deportation or indefinite imprisonment.
►https://eritreahub.org/israeli-pilots-refuse-deport-eritrean-sudanese-migrants-africa
#Israël #El_Al
“I won’t fly refugees to their deaths”: The El Al pilots resisting deportation
At least three El Al pilots in recent days published public declarations of their refusal to take part in the deportation of asylum seekers to countries where their lives may be in danger.
Captain Yoel Piterbarg, a pilot on Israel’s national airline, wrote the following on Facebook (Hebrew):
“Israel is populated primarily by Jews who, in their near and distant pasts, were refugees in countries around the world. The vast majority became citizens and a small number remained as refugees. Most went through the Holocaust, many were forcefully expelled from their countries, and many others emigrated out of a desire to improve their lives in better countries that agreed to accept them.
Out of all people we, the Jews, must be attentive, empathetic, moral, and leaders of public opinion in the world in how we treat the migration of refugees, who have suffered and continue to suffer in their countries of origin.
I will not fly deported refugees against their will for the legal reason (there is no other legal reason) that they are likely to endanger the safety of the flight.”
In another Facebook post, El Al pilot Shaul Betzer wrote (Hebrew):
“As part of the Jewish people, as someone who was raised and educated with Zionist values that renewed the existence of our nation in the Land of Israel, who has lived here his entire life, who has taken part in missions behind enemy lines, which required no small amount of courage and belief in the justness of our path, recognition of Jewish morality and the sanctity of every human being whoever they may be, all in order to ensure ourselves and the generations to come that we will never again be refugees and reliant on the goodness of others.
There is no way that as part of the flight crew, I will take part in flying refugees/asylum seekers on their way to a destination, in which their chance of survival after arrival (“a third country”) is close to zero.
Not much courage is required for such a mission, but I will not be able to do what is required of me in such a mission. As a pilot and as a human being.”
A third El Al pilot, Iddo Elad, wrote on his Facebook page (Hebrew):
“I have joined many of my good friends, in declaring that I will not fly refugees to their deaths. I won’t take part in that barbarism.”
More than 7,500 Israelis signed a petition, published by “Zazim — Community Action” earlier this month, calling on the Israel Airline Pilots Association and ground services staff at Ben Gurion Airport to “stand on the right side of history and refuse participate in this immoral deportation.”
The deportation cannot be carried out without the cooperation of pilots, the Zazim petition noted. (Full disclosure: My life partner works for Zazim.) In the first nine months of 2017, over 200 deportations of asylum seekers “failed” because German pilots for Lufthansa and its subsidiary, Eurowings, refused to take off with them on board, declaring that flight safety could be compromised if someone says they do not want to take the flight. In the UK last summer, a Turkish Airlines pilot refused to take off upon learning that a refugee was being deported against his will to Afghanistan.
In recent weeks the Israeli government approved the deportation of refugees to third countries.
According to the plan, the Holot desert detention facility, where many asylum seekers are held, will shut down and those who refuse to leave “voluntarily” to Rwanda and Uganda (and perhaps other countries) will be imprisoned indefinitely. According to numerous reports, which Rwanda and Uganda have denied, Israel will pay those countries $5,000 for each refugee they take in from Israel. Additionally, Israel will pay $3,500 to each asylum seeker who agrees to leave, although that sum will get smaller over time, thereby incentivizing them to leave sooner than later.
The agreements between Israel and those two African countries are not new. For years now Israel has paid asylum seekers to leave to Rwanda and Uganda. Despite Israel’s promises that those who agree to leave won’t be in danger, hundreds of testimonies demonstrate that they are not actually given any status or remain welcome in those countries. Instead, they are forced into yet another life-threatening journey. They are vulnerable to exploitation and humiliation, human trafficking, frequent arrests, demands for bribes, and threats. Some of them fall victim to kidnapping gangs, some into the hands of ISIS, and many choose to risk their lives trying to make it to Europe by boat.
It appears that all of the previous flights taking asylum seekers from Israel to Rwanda and Uganda were operated by non-Israeli airlines, including Ethiopian Airlines, and other carriers that service both Tel Aviv and Rwanda or Uganda. (There are no direct flights from Israel to either of those two countries.) It is unclear whether El Al pilots will be asked to fly asylum seekers out of Israel, but declarations like those published by these three pilots send a message of solidarity to the asylum seekers — and can perhaps influence pilots flying for other airlines that are being asked to carry out Israel’s dirty work.
▻http://rightsinexile.tumblr.com/post/170391939827/i-wont-fly-refugees-to-their-deaths-the-el-al
Israeli Pilots Refuse to Fly Deported Refugees Back to Africa
A group of airline pilots in Israel recently vowed not to fly deported African asylum seekers and refugees back to war-stricken countries in their home continent, Israeli media has reported.
Their protest comes days after Zizim Community Action, an Israeli non-government organization, launched an online campaign calling on pilots from the Israel Aviation Association and the Israel Pilots Association to refuse to fly migrants to Rwanda, Sudan or any other country deemed dangerous by the group.
“Throughout the world, citizens are fighting cruel expulsion decrees and stand alongside refugees and asylum-seekers,” Raluca Gena, chief executive officer of Zizim, said in a statement last Thursday. “This is a test for the Israeli public to determine the fate of tens of thousands of people."
▻http://www.newsweek.com/israel-deport-african-refugees-asylum-seekers-pilots-787407?platform=hoots
Des touristes font capoter le renvoi forcé d’un homme
Un passager entravé a pris place dans un vol régulier. Les autres voyageurs se sont plaints et l’homme a été sorti.
Pilots stop 222 asylum seekers being deported from Germany by refusing to fly
The decision not to carry a passenger was made on a ’case-by-case decision’, says #Lufthansa spokesman Michael Lamberty
►https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-pilots-refuse-deport-asylum-seekers-lufthansa-angela-merkel-mi