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Several experts are skeptical about the conclusions of the Danish asylum report on Eritrea.

Danish Immigration Service report on Eritrea gets hug from several experts and professionals.

Here are some of them:

* Jens Weise Olesen, senior consultant at the Danish Immigration Service to TV2:

– It’s a torpedo directly into the work we have done over 20 years to build credibility and transparency.

* Tamrat Kebebe, director of grassroots organization Inter Africa Group and the source of the report:

– The conclusion has been reached to / have constructed does not reflect my point of view. In fact, the situation in Eritrea considered, I find it inhumane. It is achieved by deliberately distort and tailor my statements.

* Professor at London South Bank University and the source of the report, Gaim Kibreab:

– I would dump the report if it was a first-year student who had handed it to me.

* Carl Bexelius, deputy head of legal affairs at the Swedish Migration Board:

– The report provides a picture of the situation in Eritrea, which is better than it in fact is the case. It is simply misleading.

* Dan Connell, a professor and lecturer in African politics at Simmons College in Boston. Has worked with Eritrea for 40 years. Politiken:

– It is a sloppy report appears to be designed for use political rather than to explore a subject. It is wrong absurdly on several points.

* Report from the United Kingdom announced in November, according to Politiken:

– The government (in Eritrea, ed.), People regard as political opponents if they deserting or evading military service, and treatment of these people will probably lead to prosecution.

* Sheila B. Keetharuth, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea, in a speech, according to Berlingske:

– Eritreans flee forced conscription indefinitely, arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, solitary confinement, inhumane prison conditions, killings, disappearances and torture.

* David Bozzini, a visiting scientist at the City University of New York and internationally recognized Eritrea expert, Berlingske:

– The report from the Danish immigration authorities is a perfect example of how such reports should not be. It is biased and colored.

* Secretary General of the Danish Refugee Council, Andreas Kamm, on Twitter:

– Immigration should withdraw the report on Eritrea back and rethink the whole concept. One must be able to trust the authorities.

* Claus Juul, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International:

– One can begin to process the files (for asylum seekers from Eritrea, ed.) Now, but we do not believe that it could incorporate the report of the proceedings as it looks.

* Anne Mette Kjær, researcher in African politics and government feeling at Aarhus University:

– According to my assessment holds premise of the report – that there is a lack of new information on the state of Eritrea – not. There are lots of sources, including credible sources.

Parliament calls for investigation of Attorney Frederiksen and predecessor Hækkerups share in Eritrea case.

Right now requires an examination of the Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) and her predecessor Karen Haekkerup (S) involvement in the so-called Eritrea-case.

The proposal meets the backing of a political majority consisting of Unity, SF and the Danish People’s Party, writes Berlingske Monday.

Frederiksen claimed Friday Immigration a statement on Eritrea report, but a majority in Parliament considers that there should also focus on the two successive Ministers of Justice responsibility in the matter.

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– That’s fine with a statement from the Danish Immigration Service, but we also want an explanation of the minister’s role. The minister is trying to do this for all sorts of other people’s problem. She must take political responsibility themselves.

– It is Mette Frederiksen, who has approved the report and praised it in a press release. Therefore we charge the Minister a statement, said Liberal spokesman, Karsten Lauritzen, Berlingske.

Professor pulled quotes back

It all started last weekend, when Professor Gaim Kibreab, the only named source in the report of the Danish Immigration Service, withdrew from the report because he felt betrayed and abused by the Danish officials.

Read also the Parliamentary Ombudsman man contemplating going into the Eritrea-case

The report was prepared by the Immigration Service on the basis of a so-called fact-finding mission to the East African country to investigate the security situation.

Specifically, the report noted that it is no longer risky for people of Eritrea to escape from the country’s so-called national service, which is a mixture of military service and work for the state and the government.

Political bestilingsarbejde?

The report’s conclusion means in practice that a number of asylum seekers can be sent from Denmark to Eritrea without endangering their lives.

– There is no doubt that it would be appropriate to have a detailed knowledge of how this case has been handled in the ministry, says foreigners spokesman Karina Lorentzen (SF).

Also read Justice requires statement on Eritrea-report

She points out that there are now suspicions that the Immigration Service has attempted to provide what the government wanted, writes Berlingske.

Neither Immigration or Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen has returned to the newspaper’s inquiries Sunday.

CATANIA – ”It ’a despicable traffic”. The words of the prosecutor of Catania Giovanni Salvi crystallize the abomination of what emerged from the operation conducted by the Flying Squad and the Sco Rome that led to bring to justice the alleged leaders of the transnational organization that traffics in human beings and profiting unlawfully flows from North Africa to Sicily. The headquarters would be in Libya, and the criminal group, would also be the one that would leave the boat then sank in the Strait of Sicily between 27 and 28 June, killing at least 244 people.

Tokhla, jackal in Italian, is the name of the operation that led to the arrest of 11 people in Italy and Germany. The collaboration with the German police who brought to justice one of the organization’s criminal minds, Measho Tesfamariam, 29, arrested yesterday in Muncheberg, a German national. Him and his role apical had already talked about the Espresso and Future with the investigations which have brought to light the tragedy of June. A fact already emerged from the investigation of Mobile games last May, when the ship arrived in Catania Grecale carrying 17 corpses, in addition to 206 migrants. The Eritrean was under wiretap and in several conversations referred to sinking. Then the pieces of the puzzle have been reconstructed by the police who requested his arrest. Tesfamariam understood to be picked up by investigators and, in fact, goes so far as to shut down for a certain period of time his phone number to which several relatives of the victims were trying to contact him for news of their relatives. Caution useless his trip to Germany ended with the handcuffs.

The police place detained nine other people between Sicily and northern Italy. In Milan Abdullatif Mohamed, 26, Mahmud Seid Mahamud Kar, 28, in Monza Kibrom Khasay, 24, in Rome Omar Ebrahim, Marsala Kibrom Khasay, 28 years. The others have ended up in the police net in Catania and Filipos Abraha, of 19 years, Ali Abdallah Mahammed, 24, Provide Omer Ibrahim, 19, and Efrem Goitom, 18 years.

Between May and September, the organization would organize at least 23 crossings. The investigation leads to this count: with a ticket payment that ”hovers .- says Andrea Bonomo pm – between 2000 and $ 3000.” ”Our goal – added the prosecutor Giovanni Salvi – is to ensure over the reception of migrants also to target criminal organizations to the heart.” The chief prosecutor etnea points out, even if there is a suspicion that this is the group that caused the sinking of the barge in late June, to not arrested are accused of murder.

”This organization is among the most dangerous working in human trafficking. – Says Vincenzo Nicolì SCO Rome – E ’a transnational network that operates a logistics base in Libya where people are picked and whole families from the area sub- Saharan Africa. From there they are taken on dilapidated boats and then once you are in Italy, is ready for another network that takes care of their transfer in northern Europe, and between these goals is especially Germany. ”

Rome, Monza and Catania are the logistics bases located by police. A proof that the capital Etna plays a strategic role in the migration offense run by the organization and that today the execution of stop police discovered that a building on Via Di Prima, in the heart of San Beryl, had been turned into a hiding for migrants waiting to be transferred. In an attic were ”prisoners” 9 Somalis, including eight minors aged between 14 and 16 years. ”We think there were at least two days.” – Says the manager of the Mobile Salvago Antonio. The youngsters had been locked in the house waiting for the relatives inviassero the necessary documents for the trip to Northern Europe. After the gruesome discovery, police arrested the tenant of the apartment, Andemeriam Yemane, 26, accused of kidnapping and abetting illegal stay.

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The Danish Eritrea-report do not give a true picture of the situation in the country, says Swedish legal expert.

Danish Immigration Eritrea-report is misleading because you have not been critical and wide enough in his use of sources.

How is the criticism from Carl Bexelius who is deputy head of legal affairs at the Swedish Migration Board, which corresponds to the Danish Immigration Board. Sweden has also seen a large influx of refugees from Eritrea over the past year.

Monday struck the Danish report a large bump on the road since the report only named source, the English professor Gaim Kibreab, decided to withdraw his name from the report.

Eritrea is located in the northern part of East Africa with coast along the Red Sea and bordering Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti.

The country has, according to the World Bank about six million people – however, figures are highly uncertain, as no action is taken censuses.

Previously an Italian colony and was in 1952 annexed by Ethiopia. Fought against them a war of independence from 1961 to 1991. Sidener mode between the two countries described as ’no war and no peace’.

Eritrea is one of the world’s poorest countries and is located at the bottom – in North Korea – in the list of world countries degree of freedom of the press.

He believes that he has been misquoted in the report and that his opinions have been put together with the report’s anonymous sources to reinforce their views.

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Not proper sources

Now the report again criticized – this time from the Swedish side.

– The report provides a picture of the situation in Eritrea, which is better than it in fact is the case. It is simply misleading, says Carl Bexelius.

He does not believe that the Danish Immigration Board has been good enough in their choice of sources, which results in the report being untrustworthy.

– There are problems with the sources that the report makes use of. A report like this needs a wide variety of sources that can give a picture of the whole situation in the country.

– This report has placed much emphasis on the opinions of the embassy and diplomats who do not have access to first hand information.

Also read the British report: objectors and deserters from Eritrea face persecution

– When you do a study like this, you need addressing, for example, the government and NGOs. They have important information and experiences that you need, says Carl Bexelius.

Do not recommend return ticket

In Sweden they are of the opinion that it is not safe to send deserters and conscientious returned to Eritrea as refugees at risk of imprisonment and torture.

– We are of the opinion that you can not return to Eritrea without risking consequences. Therefore, we give asylum to between 98 and 100 percent of all refugees from Eritrea, and we do not recommend people to take back, says Carl Bexelius.

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Tuesday, the Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (S) in the Parliamentary question time once the defense Immigration Service report.

Here the prime minister said that she did not want to go into each country’s conclusions on the situation in Eritrea and that she is satisfied that the Immigration Service has examined the situation in the country.
 

Eritrean journalist Habtom Yohannes writes that the Danish Immigration Service’s ”flimsy and harmful report” on Eritrea is playing right into the regime’s hands.

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