Press release
Dezember, 11th 1998
Airport asylum procedure:
PRO ASYL criticizes a lack of human rights protection
Abolition demanded
Airport asylum procedure
Schily: Asyl-Schnellverfahren auf Flughafen Frankfurt bleibt (TAZ 12.12.1998)
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The abolition of the airport asylum procedure without replacement demands the Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL on the occasion of today’s visit of Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily. The arrangement of the procedure with its extremely short time-limits is structurally unfair. The legal presuppositons have led to an unsatisfactory quality of decision-making. Obviously a part of the Federal Office officers at the airport feels encouraged moreover to carry out proofs of credibility merely roughly carved, whereas the real reasons of flight remain only a marginal subject.
In spite of heavy criticism of the procedure and of single eligibility officers the former Federal Government has not drawn conclusions regarding the direction of the Federal Office. Still eligibility officers intending to decide positively should present that to the senior officer. „This way an unbearable pressure is put, to investigate and decide to the disadvantage of refugees“, said Heiko Kauffmann, spokesman of PRO ASYL.
