Press Release 19th of August 2009
Refugee Initiative Möhlau & no lager halle
Foreigners' Office Wittenberg Tries to Extort Passports and Proofs of Identity until 11th of September 2009
In the beginning of August, the foreigners' office sent an "order to contribute to the ascertainment of identity and the provision of return documents via embassy resp. home authorities" to almost all refugees in the camp Möhlau.
Refugees report that they received a letter with the same text one year ago.
In this letter, the refugees' entry into Germany is called "illegal" and it is alleged that the refugees had not fulfilled their duty of contributing to the provision of a document of identity for the execution of their deportation. In addition, the foreigners' office hopes that the refugees had more documents which it has not received yet. Moreover, it demands that "family members, acquaintances or relatives" in the country of origin are called in to provide a passport.
Some refugees report that they handed in their passport at the foreigners' office years ago and assume that this is so long ago that meanwhile the passport may have expired.
If the refugees would not bring all documents which are necessary to execute a deportation within a month, the foreigners' office threatens with a bunch of repressions:
- ban on employment (hardly any refugee has got a work permission)
- cutback in payments (the refugees already receive only reduced payments)
- the foreigners' office is going to report refugees to the police if they do not submit all documents (that are necessary for the deportation), and claims that this is punishable by one year imprisonment (or a fine)
- if false documents are submitted, this will also be reported to the police and would be punishable by up to three years' imprisonment (or a fine)
- the deportation order is going to continue to threaten even in case of
1. marriage to a German citizen
2. birth of a child
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Statement of the refugee initiative Möhlau:
The voice of stateless refugees
The fundamental basis to which the world administration system was created was by administering people together to form a so called states or country. Basing to that theory, the legislatures try to adopt and define, who is thier national or not, through the introduction of what we called Nationality laws. That means those individuals or persons who is considered as a national by any state under the operaeration of its law.have a nationality.
Contrary to that, it should be considerd that millions of individuals were been deprived of having or benefiting with the so called nationality laws because a nationality is a manifestation of countries sovereingnity and identity. There are many mechanisms that contribut to the developement of statelessness such as violation of Human rights,laws differences, laws on birth and mariage registration of countries, nationality based on descent, non birth registration, political and administration change, discrimination because of race, ethnicity or gender, traficking of children and early death of migrant to which they were unable to pass thier nationality to thier children if the country does not posses a standard data system between countries, interethnic conflict, state succession, and forced dis- placement caused by war or interupted affilation because of inter marriage and displacements etc and these things lead them not to be considerd as a national by any states under the operation of its law.
Such people are sometimes categorized as de jure stateless. Per- sons who have legitimate claims to citizen- ship, but who cannot prove their citizenship, or whose governments refuse to give effect to their nationality.
Complications can emerge, where by there is diffrencies in states legislature on the nationality law some countries considerd thier nationality through Birth while some considerd thiers through descent parents.
Children of migrant workers.were also victims, authorities in the country of parental residence may refuse to register the birth, or even if it is registerd were stateles, the country of origin also may have a policy of granting citizenship based on the terr itory of birth, in which case the children of migrant workers will be denied citizenship ,. statelessness may also arise when children are abandoned for political or economic by thier mother or precoce death of the emigrant mother which leads to illegal adoption, or for example, when children are born out of wedlock to foreign ers and female nationals.
Some of them faced persecution, war , political crises , natural catastroph and had to fled thier country of resident,birth and demanded asylum here in germany and thier asylum were rejected and their future were hopless without solution, no states protection
Therfore, we are calling for responsible local government to which this stateless people were attributed for solidarity and recognise thier right of existence. To stop , presurising them while they knew the inability of these stateles refugees not to be able to afford any legal document to which it is not thier fault and they can not falsify a document of a sovereing state
Refugee initiative Möhlau Wittenberg
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The Letter of the Foreign Office from beginning of August page 2
