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Note! New Addresses: please send your faxes to the district administrative court Gera, fax number: 0365-8339100!!!

A danger for public security...?

By participating in the »mini caravan«, Jose Maria Jones violated the law restricting movement of asylum seekers and is now to be deported from Germany !

In early 1999 Mr. Jones traveled with a delegation of the caravan for the rights of  refugees and migrants to several cities in the Ruhr district and Bavaria. The caravan group  was controlled by the police three times at gas stations in Bavaria, for no other obvious reason other than the skin colour of the delegation members. The car and the occupants were thoroughly searched. During one of the controls, Mr. Jones's residence permission was taken away. Instead, the officials imposed a fine on him. Only after he paid the fine would he get back his residence paper. But surprisingly some months later the district administration office of Wartburgkreis issued him a order to leave the country, on the basis of the same police controls.

And in such a way Mr. Jones is suddenly transformed into a criminal. In the judgement it is said that, by moving freely outside his district on more than one occasion, he has committed  criminal offences and that he therefore represents a safety risk for the liberal democratic constitutional structure of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Mr. Jones is confused; it is inconceivable to him, how his journey with the mini caravan could endanger public security.

As refugees in Germany, a clause of the asylum law deprives us of the right to move freely. Our freedom of movement is limited to the district, in which our accommodation has been allocated. Only with the express permission of the foreigners authority are we allowed to leave our district. Now this practice which is against all notions of humanrights is being used to deport refugees as criminals. This is what the district administration office of Thuringia recently decided in the case of Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones, who travelled a long way from the war in Sierra Leone to Europe, in the faith that Germany, a democratic country, would offer him refuge, must now experience in an uncredible way that he is systematically deprived of fundamental rights here too. He is held prisoner in a district, which is far removed from civilisation. He may not even enter the next larger city, which is situated in another district. If he is obliged to do this for any reason, he is accused of a criminal offence. Additionally it is not easy for Mr. Jones to receive permission to leave the district: Like all refugees, he gets only 80 DM pocket money per month. For the train ticket alone to the foreigner authority in Bad Salzungen, which can issue the permission, he must pay 40 DM already. In addition 15 DM for the issuing of such a permission.

Here is it shown clearly, how foreigner criminality is artificially created by the state: the right to freedom of movement is abolished for us refugees.

Thus we are systematically provoked to commit violations of the law so that we are branded "criminals". As a consequence the statistics on foreigner criminality climbs upward, with which politicians and the media then run hate campaigns against us. We are not criminal, but the foreigner and asylum laws , which brand us as criminals!

For the summons which he received so far, during the residence obligation violation, Mr. Jones has to pay 70 per diems at five DM. It is not clear to him, how he is to pay this sum in view of his financial situation as a refugee (with no permission to work, and a monthly pocket money of 80 DM).

But it is not enough for the authorities that Mr. Jones, just because he left his neighbourhood without permission, is branded as an offender.  In addition his visit with the mini caravan to Bavaria is also used to justify his deportation. Mr. Jones still enjoys provisional legal protection: The deportation can be carried out only if his request for asylum is rejected, but nevertheless: the menace of being sent back to persecution, civil war, and danger to life remains and creates fear and panic.

The decision by the district administration office to make him leave the country is justified among other things with the fact  that "other foreigners should be prevented from commiting criminal offences against the legal order of the Federal Republic of Germany (...). Especially in the area of offences against the spatial limitation (...), asylum-seekers are seen to increasingly and in extensive measure cause an accumulation of such criminal offences in federal territory so that a punishment here using all means is required by the authorities (...) ". A law that displays such contempt for fellow human beings, like the law preventing free movement of asylum seekers, can only be implemented using draconian deterrants, because which insight can otherwise lead to the fact that humans themselves agree to confine themselves to  "cages" circumscribed by their district authorities?

That of all people Mr. Jones is subjected to such a draconian punishment must also be seen in connection with his commitment to the caravan. He is to represent a deterring example for all other refugees, refugees who resist the conditions violating human dignity, which this country reserves for them, and who fight for their rights. The court decision carries an unmistakable threat to all refugees, who organize themselves in the caravan.

The caravan calls all groups of caravan, human rights organizations and all progressive forces to contribute to the stopping the order that Jose Maria Jones leave the country! Please expose this despicable law practice to the broad public !

It is extremely important to counter the attack on the caravan and the rights of Mr. Jose Maria Jones.

Mr. Jones is urgently dependent on cash donations, because he cannot pay the required sum for the fine on his own.

A case has been filed against the order to leave the country.The district administration office of Wartburgkreis is now investigating the order. In order to obtain a positive decision of the office, we are starting a broad fax campaign against the criminalisation of Jose Maria Jones.

Please take part in the fax campaign. Send faxes to the administrative court Gera!

Please pressurise them to take back the order that Mr. Jones leave the country!

Administrative court Gera, faxnumber: 0365-8339100

Contact:
Donation account
Coordination office of the caravan for the rights of therefugees and MigrantInnen

c/o international human right association e.V.

Kornstrasse  51. 28201 Bremen

Tel.: 0421-5577093. Fax: 0421-5577094

Mail@humanrights.de
for the fines by Mr. Jones and for the support of thecampaign: Postal bank Hamburg, account number: 9929207, BLZ:20010020,

Reference: Solidarity campaign for Jose Maria Jones