Sweden deports man to wrong country
Published: 16 Nov 11 10:18 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/37382/20111116/
Swedish police were given orders to deport a man to Iran, but instead sent him to Iraq, where he now risks 15 years in prison for claiming to be a citizen in the country, according to a report in the Expressen daily.
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The 53-year-old man, who was born in Iraq, was deported by Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. After that he became an Iranian citizen.
He applied for residency in Sweden in 2002, but his application was rejected and in October 2010 the police in Gävle in northern Sweden were instructed to deport him back to Iran.
Why he was sent to the wrong country is unclear, but the error has been reported to the Parliamentary Ombudsman (Justitieombudsmannen - JO).
According to acquaintances of the man's sister the man remains in jail at a police station in Baghdad.
"I travelled to Baghdad and got to visit my brother at the police station. He was in a dark cell without electricity along with several others. I could barely see him behind the bars," the man's sister told the Dagens Nyheter daily.
"I haven't had contact with him in months, but my acquaintances in Baghdad say he's still in jail."
Gävle police have admitted to having made an error and that they now have changed their routines.
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What steps have the Swedish goverment taken to bust him out of jail in Baghdad? The quicker he is out, the less damages they will have to pay him for getting him in.
And Node you obviously know diddley squat about the Iranian revolution
second if you cant get a visa,citizenship or whatever then go home and stop fooling around.
one should always remember his homeland and not feel bad about it, if you dont like you own country then change it, what can you do for your country? not what can your country do for you!
...Swedes don't migrate, do they?
There aren't any Swedes in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe? What would people say if a Swede was deported by mistake to Iraq and had troubles there?
Of course brainless people just sit in front of a PC and just write stupid things.
That seems to be true for the Swedish authorities also.
"Send them back to their country"... I remember hearing that directed towards immigrant kids..... WHEN I WAS 7 YEARS OLD.
You didn't answer my question "Iranians wanted revolution , they got it , why are they coming out of Iran now?" Why don't they go back and enjoy it or oppose it ....LEAVE SWEDEN, Gothenburg & Oslo is suffering because of these Iranians
What kind of 'democracy' would lock you up for 15 years for claiming to be a citizen, rather than simply denying you entry to the country?
The US argued ideologically that the Trillion dollars they spent invading Iraq was to spread democracy there. We all know if was for oil, but still shocking that the so-called 'democracy' they have helped to install there is such a horribly oppressive police state.
Whatever happens to him after he's deported is merely ancillary at best to the important part - the deportation itself.
this is my answer: Iranian revolution was stolen by religious hardliners. Similar things happened in Russia (in 1917) and in the French revolution. The resulted government does not represent the will of Iranian people.
Many Islamists get upset when they see Iranians are leaving Iran (and the lovely Islam) and suggest us to go back to Iran. Despite this many Iranians have managed to prosper outside of Iran (e.g. Ebay's founder, Youtube's CEO, along with huge number of Iranian professors in US universities... a classmate of mine just became a professor in Berkeley :) ).
If seeing Iranians in west is bothering you, you can try democratic ways of changing immigration laws, otherwise, just shut up.
By the way, the man in Question is an Iraqi kurd. Many Kurd famillies were deported from Iraq in 1980's by our lovely Saddam Hussein (because their parents were immigrants from Iran). Some came to Europe and some went to Iran who was accepting them generously at that time.
Iranian Atheist.
Although such a thing would definitely recquire a change in routine as stated it's an easy mistake to make. Papers say man is born in Iraq and he says he's from Iraq = deport him to Iraq. Whether this is what actually happened or not is unclear though but it certainly sounds like it...