Norway: Asylum and immigration (2)
01 January 1991
Norway: Asylum and immigration
artdoc April=1995
Demands for segregation in prisons
Spokespersons for the Centre party and the extreme right Progress
party have supported a call by the Director of Ullersmo prison
for foreigners awaiting deportation to be segregated in different
prisons. `It is a good time to have such a prison and people will
feel safe on the streets from now on. We should realise that most
crimes are being committed by foreigners' said the Center party's
spokesman on Stortingets justice committee (Dagbladet/Nordlys
21,22.12.94).
Deportations
Asylum -seeker from Kosova to be deported
The justice department, in ordering the deportation of mentally
ill Ilmi Hasani, an asylum-seeker from Kosovo, say they do not
believe that he has been tortured. Two MPs have intervened on the
Kosovan man's behalf (Dagbladet 17,23.12.94).
Tamil man who changed his name can't stay
A 28-year-old Sri Lankan who has lived in Norway for four years
has been denied a permanent residence permit because the police
say that he has given a false name to the authorities. The man
says that the authorities do not understand that, as a Tamil, he
had to change his name to a Muslim name while hiding in Sri Lanka
(Samora Newsletter no 12, Dec. 94).
Bangladeshi student to be deported
The justice department has said that it will deport a 38-year-old
student from Bangladesh despite the University of Bergen's
recommendation that he should be allowed to stay (Bergens Tidende
18.11.94).
Teacher who hid refugee fined
A teacher at Harstad primary school has been fined $715 for
hiding a 11-year-old Kosovo-Albanian refugee to prevent his
deportation. The boy has now been returned to Kosovo together
with his family (Dagbladet 17.11.94).
Ruling in Ugandan case divides family
Ugandan sisters, Mina (20) and Lizzy (5) have been told by a
magistrates court that the decision to deport them is invalid.
The sisters were arrested and threatened with deportation after
their mother decided to disappear rather than face a deportation
order. The sisters have been told that should their mother
reappear, then the Norwegian authorities would have the right to
deport the whole family (Dagbladet 23.10.94).
IRR European Race Audit, Bulletin no 12, March 1995. Contact: Liz
Fekete, Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London
WC1X 9HS. Tel: 0171 837 0041