Support network for Afghan refugees

Since the end of hunger strike, Hunting and arresting afghan refugees are going on increasingly, in the streets, homes, workplaces, at day and at night! Around 40 afghan have bee deported yet. some of them are already to another flight, out side and inside of Afghanistan, but, about most of them no one knows where are they. Alive, death, in prison or….

At Thursday's evening, when 2 policemen, went for the usual hunting at the Afghan refugees apartments, a 25 yeas old refugee that had previously been for 26 days in the afghan refugees' hunger strike, dropped himself out of the window, and had his feet broken. Now he is at the Aker Sykehuse. Again he started an endless hunger strike from Friday 6^th October.

Every 24 hours dozens of us can be hunted, handcuffed and detained. After days of humiliation, kept hungry, we can be deported or released for a new round of hunting and arrest.

The feeling that, behind every door bell, in every corner of the city's streets, at work place, there are policemen waiting to arrest us, is occupying all our moments with fear and scary nightmares.

But still we don't dare to return back to our burning home, witch is a battle field. We hope to not be condemned too much because of not returning voluntarily to such a home. Who will go by his feet to the slaughter-house?

Nevertheless, handcuff and detention centers here are much kinder than those bullets and bombs (partly supported by and made in Norway) waiting for us in Afghanistan.

To reach our voice that:

Afghanistan is not safe, stop hunting Afghan refugees, stop deportation.

We declare a 3 days silent-seat-down in front of the parliament, from 19^th of October witch will end with a silent street demonstration on Saturday, 21st.

Zahir Athari

41 74 80 88

Afghan Refugee Committee

Coalition forces set alight homes in Kunar

JALALABAD, Oct 4 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Coalition forces have torched homes of civilians in Sarkano district of the eastern Kunar province, local officials say.Dedar Shalzai, Governor of Kunar, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday the homes were located just two miles of the district headquarters. He said he had met local elders and had showed his strong reaction on the incident. The governor said ODA, a distinct body of the coalition forces had torched three homes in the area.Jandullah, a resident of Sarkano, told this news agency coalition forces had set alight eight homes. He said work on the homes was near to completion as materials were brought for them. The coalition forces were of the view ammunition and edible were brought for Taliban through these donkeys and they burnt the homes, Jandullah said.He said: "The burnt homes were located in 2 kilomteres of the district headquarters, how Taliban could be stationed so close."

Governor Dedar said in a meeting coalition forces told him about presence of the fighters in the area. He said the troops told him they had found through binocular that donkeys were used for supplying various items. He said in a joint operation with Afghan National Army (ANA) they recovered some explosives under a wall.

The governor said he had met commander of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) based in Kunar and had strongly protested him. Dedar said: "Such acts of the coalition forces create problems for them in the area."Brig Gen Abdul Jalal Jalal told this news agency that besides burning six homes the coalition forces also took away three people and six animals along with them. Coalition forces have yet to comment on the incident. Abdul Mueed Hashmi

http://pajhwak.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=25461

Coalition forces set alight homes in Kunar

JALALABAD, Oct 4 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Coalition forces have torched homes of civilians in Sarkano district of the eastern Kunar province, local officials say.Dedar Shalzai, Governor of Kunar, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday the homes were located just two miles of the district headquarters. He said he had met local elders and had showed his strong reaction on the incident. The governor said ODA, a distinct body of the coalition forces had torched three homes in the area.Jandullah, a resident of Sarkano, told this news agency coalition forces had set alight eight homes. He said work on the homes was near to completion as materials were brought for them. The coalition forces were of the view ammunition and edible were brought for Taliban through these donkeys and they burnt the homes, Jandullah said.He said: "The burnt homes were located in 2 kilomteres of the district headquarters, how Taliban could be stationed so close."

Governor Dedar said in a meeting coalition forces told him about presence of the fighters in the area. He said the troops told him they had found through binocular that donkeys were used for supplying various items. He said in a joint operation with Afghan National Army (ANA) they recovered some explosives under a wall.

The governor said he had met commander of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) based in Kunar and had strongly protested him. Dedar said: "Such acts of the coalition forces create problems for them in the area."Brig Gen Abdul Jalal Jalal told this news agency that besides burning six homes the coalition forces also took away three people and six animals along with them. Coalition forces have yet to comment on the incident. Abdul Mueed Hashmi

http://pajhwak.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=25461

On Monday the 31th of July The support network for Afghan refugees will arrange a demonstration and a support concert.

Afghanistan is not safe, stop the deportations!
For a humane refugee politics!

The demonstration will start from the place outside the cathetral of Oslo at 17:00, and will end with a suppport concert at Eidsvoll plass, outside the parliament building (Stortinget).

Appellants:
Liv Gulbrandsen (The support network for Afghan refugees)
Zahir Athari (Spokesperson for the Afghans)
Kirsti Bergstø (Sosialistisk ungdom(Socialistic Youth))
Margreth Olin (Filmmaker)

Artists:
Big Bang / MadCon / Kohinoor / Jester / TonnaBrix / Optik / Jay L Kay

The concert starts at 18:00 at parliament building. Bring friends and family! Print posters and spread the word!

On Friday the 15th of July, the Support network for Afghan refugees arranged a street theatre in Oslo. Bjarne Håkon Hanssen was invited to participate in the quis “Would you like to be deported?”. After consulting with his good friend Erna, he answered correctly in the last round, where the question was “Is it safe in Kabul?”. Hanssen won a one-way ticket to aestival and safe surroundings in Kabul, Afghanistan, and got “escorted” away by security guards

Here you can watch a video of the theatre!

The support network is planning an artistic happening in the near future. Tomorrow at 17:00 there will be a meeting at the office at Osterhausgate 27, to plan the happening.

We need people who are interested in acting, but we also need as many people as possible, so everyone should come!

This will be fun! Come!

At 18:00 Friday evening, outside the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, the support network had a protest demonstration against the deportations of two Afghan refugees.

Kirsti Bergstø (SU), Torstein Dahle (RV) and Mimir Kristjanson (RU) lodged appeals against the governments politics.

Thursday evening the support network learned about a deportation of two Afghan refugees on Friday.

Symbolic action at Trandum
Early Friday morning activists from the support network went to the well-known asylum prison - Trandum interneringsleir - last stop in Norway before deportations via Oslo airport Gardermoen. At around half past seven in the morning, activists closed the main gate at Trandum with chains and locks. Shortly after, the gate right outside of the asylum prison and the third gate - the rear entry towards the street, were chained up.

These gates was chained up as a symbolic action. We can not accept that the governments promises are broken and refugees are forcefully deported to a country in war, where they are facing a very insecure future.

Information action at Gardermoen
At about eight o’lock Friday morning, about thirty activists from The support network for Afghan refugees were in place at Gardermoen. The support network demonstrated with banners and posters, leaflets were handed out to both travellers and airport personnel. In addition to the leaflets, letters informing how the airport passengers could influence the airline companies were handed out to travellers.

What is happening now, is an infringement of the two asylum seekers, and is abhorrent to the promises that the government gave. Bjarne Håkon Hansen has bluffed, said RV’s Torstein Dahle to NRK.

Aksjonen på Gardermoen ble avsluttet rundt 13:00. Som tidligere, var politiet svært tilbakeholdne med informasjon, og Støttenettverket hadde ikke kjennskap til hvilken flyavgang som skulle benyttes til tvangsutsendelsen. Vi fikk til slutt informasjon at utsendelsen skjedde med et SAS-fly 17:05 på fredag ettermiddag. Dette førte til at personer dro tilbake fra Oslo til Gardermoen, for å fortsette informasjonskampanjen.Friday morning Rune Berglund Steen, in NOAS, said that there were no basis of claiming that one of the Afghans had a network in Kabul, and the deportation therefore was against UN-guidelines. The other Afghani’s case, was according to NOAS, at the time of deportation, still not completly reviewed.

The action at Gardermoen was ended at about 13:00. As before, the police were withhold with information, the support network had no information regarding which flight or airline that would be used for the deportation. Finally we learned that a SAS flight at 17:05 was the one that would be used for the deportations. Due to this, a small group of people went back from Oslo to Gardermoen, to continue the information campaign.

Press release from The support network for Afghan refugees
Time: 2006-07-06 - 20:45

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New deportations to Afghanistan and protest actions at Gardermoen

Thursday night The support network learned that the government will deport another two Afghan refugees to Kabul. The Afghans have said that they do not have a connection to Kabul. Their cases is under a reevaluation, but the work with this is still not finished.

This is clearly contradictory with the promises from the government.

Tomorrow, at 08:00, The support network for Afghan refugees will have a protest action at Oslo airport Gardermoen. We will inform people and companies about the deportations - to try to hinder that these two people will be sent back to a war zone.

Regards
The support network for Afghan refugees
http://www.sultestreiken.net
info@sultestreiken.net

Contact persons:
Zahir Athari - 417 48 088
Eskil Hadland - 993 66 209
Elisabeth Steindal - 932 86 769

The support network for Afghans refugees own action group is planning an action on Friday (7th of July) morning.

The action will be both theatrical and witty, and is an action that everyone can take a part in. We need lots of people who want to participate! We have planned a small performance and also needs some props.

Does this sound exciting? Want to join? Come to our preparatory meeting on Thursday the 6th of July at 18:00, at Osterhausgate 27.

Contact person: Johannes wilm - 93 35 25 94