Ministry of Justice: Asylum Rebellion consequences – NRK

The residents of the reception center have come to the country to seek asylum as unaccompanied minors.

When one of the residents Thursday Aug. 6 should be moved because the police believe he is over 18 years, and he opposed wearing this, erupted rebellion. More than 20 residents barricaded himself in a gymnasium and threw stones at police.

Sheriff Frank Sletten in Lunner said that 15 people are under investigation and that most of them can expect a fine. Imprisonment may also be considered for any of them, he says to the class struggle.

– Major consequences

– As we saw in Lunner, it can be difficult to deal with young people who are seeking asylum alone . It may prove that a person is under 18 years old and may need to be returned. These situations will be more in the future, says Kallemyr, who believe the consequences could be major participants in the uprising.

– There will most likely have consequences for their stay assessment, says Kallemyr. He emphasizes that if you fulfill the conditions for asylum, it will have less to say.

– But for them to be considered for humanitarian clause, such a remark of great importance, says Kallemyr.

– Should be treated as children

They accused by rebellion at a reception center in Oppland, primarily children and should be treated accordingly, said Save the Children youth Press NTB last week.

– These are children who come from war and conflict, many of them highly traumatized, and with a form of communication we are not used to. Criminal behavior should never be accepted, but I see it as a defeat that unaccompanied minors seeking asylum so often referred to as criminals in the media, said Press Leader Karoline Steen Nylander.

She believes it is necessary with changes in the system.

– Caring Responsibility for unaccompanied asylum children must be transferred to CPS. Not least, we must remember that children are primarily children, wherever they come from. The unaccompanied asylum children have decriminalized in public debate, she says.

– Error with separate reception

General Sylo Taraku in Equality, integration, diversity (LIM) stated last week NTB that asylum seekers that unaccompanied minors should be placed in ordinary reception centers, along with adults.

– If the idea of ​​gathering young asylum seekers in special reception is to create safer conditions for them, as experience shows that the opposite is true. Often the most commotion and noise just in reception centers for unaccompanied minors who are extra staffed, said Taraku.

He believes young asylum seekers have benefited from having adults around them, and then not only adults which is state employee.

– Experience has shown the presence of families with children a stabilizing and positive effect on the social environment at the reception, said Taraku.

Afghanistan meeting

Record number has this year applied for asylum as unaccompanied minor asylum seekers. The coalition tried to put in place an agreement to return unaccompanied asylum children to a care center in Afghanistan, which is the country most unaccompanied minors coming from.

Kallemyr not exclude that this is a topic he will take up again when he soon gets the Afghan refugee minister visiting.

– The most important thing we should take up, what we can do to improve conditions in Afghanistan. We provide a lot of assistance and expects that these funds are used to make the refugee situation better, says Kallemyr to class struggle.