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Belgium: in brief

01 September 1996

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Kurds targeted in police raids: Over two hundred police were involved in raids on Kurdish households. The campaign was primarily targeted at people who are involved in the television company Med-TV, who used to broadcast Kurdish programmes by satellite until they were closed down. The Belgian Justice Ministry accuses the company of being a front for the PKK. Over BF350,000,000 has been confiscated. Other organisations targeted in the raids included the Belgian Parliament for Kurds in exile, as well as private individuals. De Morgen, 19.9.96. Belgium: In August, the Belgian state police refused entry to three French children aged seven, 11 and 15, held them for six hours and deported them to Algeria. Their Algerian parents, who were waiting at the airport in Belgium to pick the children up and drive them to Paris, were not allowed to explain to the border police that as French citizens, the children did not require residence permits. Nor did the police contact the French authorities to check the children's status. IRR European Race Audit, no 20, October 1996.

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