EU,NL plan detaining distressed sea survivors in Maltese

Email exchanges between EU and NL authorities reveal attempts to use relocation mechanisms for detaining survivors of distress at sea in Maltese detention centers, Human Rights Without Borders has said.

 Tweeting via its verified Twitter handle @BorderlineEurop, it said: “The Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice suggests detaining arriving protection seekers throughout the asylum procedure, hoping to deport them more easily. The ministry describes 2 possible scenarios to deport survivors from distress at sea through relocation:

 “(a) return from NL after readmission from Malta and relocation or (b) return directly from Malta by NL. Would prefer option (b) and to “enforce denial of access to Schengen from Malta, then the migrants can be kept in detention all throughout the asylum procedure.”

Emails,the post added,  also reveal the Dutch Ministry’s concerns with the political situation in the country of origin, “if there is political instability, it makes readmission agreements and deportation difficult for NL. Shouldn´t that be a reason not to deport people?!

 “The German Ministers of Interior are meeting from 14 – 16 June in Berlin, to take decisions on the lives of people of the move in Germany.

 In light of such inhumane relocation procedures and the decision of EU’s Ministers of Interior to further repress people on the move’s rights, we demand a real change in Germany’s migration policy.”