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We Demand the Immediate and Unconditional Abolition of German Apartheid
Residential Restriction and the Obligation Laws
"Landkreis-Residenzpflichtgesetz" against the Refugees in Germany!
We protest against the permanent controls and the persecution of refugees by
the German authorities, the politicians and the Legislation responsible.
Movement is our (my) individual and fundamental Right! Join the Civil
Disobedience!
In a democratic land the only reason for state authorities control and
monitoring of persons is to keep the peace and to protect other members of
the society. Such a control should be done on the base of the constitution
without prejudice of origin, religion, colour or race of the controlled
person. The reality in Germany is another.
Refugees in Germany are victims of the "Residenzpflichtgesetz", a system of
residential restriction like the Apartheid in the former racist South
Africa. Also Germany has its Pass Law. It is for Refugees forbidden to move
free in Germany. They are not allowed to leave the local district where they
are confined as habitation places. They must live in the refugee homes,
often in isolated areas and in the woods. These laws in reality put
migrants under segregating police controls. These controls are run on the
base of the external differences between migrant people and the white German
majority.
The Freedom of movement is non-negotiable and should be protected by each
democratic society as the foundation of the development of the human
personality.
Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that Germany is a
signatory states: Every human being has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each nation... We (I) therefore strongly
protest this police control restricting freedom of movement as an act of
discrimination and total disregard of human dignity and human rights, like
the Pass Laws of the Apartheid Era in South Africa.
The residential restriction Law is the base for racist motivated selective
police enforcements; based on "race", body colour, religion and nationality,
which is not only unconstitutional and uncivilised but endangered the
refugees, the general insecurity of the refugees and the migrants in Germany
are forcefully executed by the authorities.
This police control restricting movement of the refugees without a crime, is
an act of intentionally inflicting severe pain of physical and mental
suffering, instigated by the state institutions, intimidating and destroying
personal development, constituting deliberate cruelty, inhuman and degrading
treatment; For which the state officials are protected when they do not
permit the freedom of movement ensuring Institutionalised Racism, violating
data protection laws by investigating the privacy of persons including
Germans who associate with the refugees and migrants. They do that
accordingly to a law, which forbids the refugees' individual right of free
movement.
These police controls are made criminal by the forceful fingerprinting and
photography leading to an opening of a criminal file according to the
German-Foreigners law-(AuslG) article 36 and the German law governing asylum
application(AsylVFG) article 56. The state prosecution for freedom of
movement brings about state and police brutality by battering and
stripping-off, putting fingers into the mouth and anus that sometimes lead
to police murder.
This apartheid residential restriction -Obligation Pass law
"Residenzpflichtgesetz" makes a refugee an open suspect without being a
criminal that leads to racist detentions without crime according to (article
59 of the German law governing asylum application-AsylVFG). A repeated
violation of this apartheid residential restriction -obligation "Pass law"
exposes the refugee to a jail term of up to one year, at the discretion of
the state authorities by (Article 85 No.2, and Article 59 of the law
governing asylum application-AsylVG). You may be fined as much as 5000DM
according to article 86 of the German asylum law (AsylVFG) for the violation
of the Apartheid residential restriction -Obligation "pass law" and if the
fine cannot be paid by the refugee who gets meagre 80DM per month, he or she
is slave worked as punishment for the fine. This is exploitation that is
repressive and prohibited by the United Nations declaration of human rights
Articles 4,5,6,9,13 and 14.
With this criminalization controls we are (I am) treated as potential
criminals or murderers, a refugee could be lawfully detained and put into
custody awaiting deportation for 18 months without having committed a crime
as regulated in Article 57 of the German-foreigners law (AuslG) and Article
59 of the law governing asylum application (AsylVFG). Are we (Am I) as
travellers equal to murderers in Germany?
We (I) protest racist control, arrest, detention and the institutionalised
racism.
Germans often forgot or ignored the fact that they benefited more than other
countries from international asylum rights - first in the Nazi-Era, when
many German people searched for asylum all over the world, the second time
after World War Two, when even guilty Nazi people obtained asylum rights in
foreign countries including the countries of the refugees and migrants of
today under the protection of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Right.
But how is the situation now in Germany? The German reality is the political
destruction of the individual and fundamental asylum rights for refugees and
migrants, of which the German society must be reminded of their historical
duty against destruction!
The German state global politics of refugee repression is in continuous
escalation and collaboration with the fascists, dictators and the corrupt
regime in the refugees' countries.
We (I) protest, calling for the immediate abolition of the Apartheid
Residential Restriction -Obligation Pass Law "Residenzpflichtgesetz" which
exist only in Germany since 1982. Our protest against the discrimination of
refugees is part of our(my) political engagement for the continuation of our
(my) political struggle for human freedom in exile, as our (my) right to
freedom of opinion, expression and association regardless of frontiers is
also restricted, in violation of Articles 13, 19, 20, 27 and 29 of the
universal declaration of human rights which Germany ratified.
For any compromise with the restriction of the individual right of movement
and the confinement of refugees, are political corruption, discrimination
and gross human right abuse.
We (I) appeal against this control forbidding our (my) individual and
fundamental right to move, forbidding our (my) right to live, for movement
is life and freedom for liberty in an expected democratic state.
Stop enforcing racial laws.
There is one-humanity and it cannot be divided by anyone or the German
state.
It is time now for civil disobedience!
Break the Apartheid Residential Restriction Obligation "Pass Law"!
Free Movement is Our Right! Germany is not safe for Refugees!
17-19.May 2001 Protest March and Demonstrations in Berlin
Abolish Residential Restriction -Obligation "Pass Law"
(Landkreis-Residenzpflichtgesetz): Law governing asylum applications
(Asylverfahrensgesetz) Article 56 and German-Foreigners' Law
(Ausländergesetz) Article 36 against the Freedom of movement for refugees in
Germany.
Die Karawane for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in Germany
Campaign Co-ordination:The VOICE Africa Forum, Refugee Human Right Group,
Schillergäßchen 5,07745 Jena-Thueringen
Tel.:0049(0)3641/665214,423794,Fax:03641/423795,420270.
Mobilfunk+49(0)175/3267398,0170/4750618.
In collaboration with:
Brandenburg Refugees Initiative
Caravan Co-ordination:
Internationaler Menschenrechtsverein Bremen.
Münchenerstr. 17, 28215 Bremen
Tel.0421/5577093,Fax.0421/5577094.
Email:
Solidarity Donation: "Berlin Residenzpflichtgesetz Protest"
Bank Account: No.:0231633905,BLZ.:86010090 PostBank Leipzig
Berliner Vorbereitungsbündnis c /o Antirassistische Initiative,
Yorckstr. 59, 10965 Berlin,
Tel. 0 30-785 7281,
Fax 030-786 9984,
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