Asylum seekers in Finnmark is arrested – Bergens Tidende

Kirkenes: All asylum seekers on arrival Center Finnmark is arrested. That means they within three days must be sent out, be prepared for custody or release.

That said Chief of Police Immigration Service (PU) in Finnmark, Tor Espen Haga, said.

It is between 50 and 100 people at the arrival center Friday. Police have several patrols on site to make sure no one leaves the center.

The planned returns from center were canceled both Thursday and Friday. The reason is, according to PU lack of capacity in Russia and the lack of bus capacity.

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Right on lawyer

Those who are now detained must either be deported or produced for remand within 72 hours. In connection with a possible remand has the right to a lawyer, said senior adviser Jon Ole Martinsen Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (NOAS).

– So there is a question whether there has been an unlawful deprivation of those already has served on the Western camp since Saturday. How they experience their situation they have de facto been deprived of his liberty. The individual who sits in Western camp may attempt to try this in court, says he said.

He said that those who have been refused the application without substantive discussion also entitled to legal aid. NOAS has been in contact with dozens of lawyers who have volunteered to assist those who have been refused the application.

Cancelled rebounds

The government has been criticized from several recently for that it sent people to Russia without Norwegian authorities have made a real individual treatment of asylsøknadane.

Labor and the Center asked Thursday during a break in the mailings until the government can prove that the practice does not violate international obligations, such as UNHCR and several human rights organizations claim.

– It would be very unwise to stop the mailings. If we begin to wobble, the flow of refugees start up again, said immigration and integration minister Sylvi Listhaug (FRP) said.

Thursday escaped more asylum seekers from the center, when it became known that PU planned shuttles to Murmansk or Nikel. Three of them – two men and a pregnant woman – came to Kirkenes church, where they have sought church asylum.