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Denmark:Floating ships abandoned?

01 January 1991

Denmark:Floating ships abandoned?
artdoc April=1993

Home affairs minister Birthe Weiss has made contradictory
statements on the practice of keeping asylum-seekers on floating
ships anchored in Copenhagen harbour.In February, Ms Weiss
denounced conditions on board the two ships, which she said
would, in future, only be used as an emergency measure for short
periods (Poliliken 1.2.93). But by March, Ms Weiss was
officially announcing that a new ship for housing asylum-seekers
was under construction.

`Tamilgate'- civil servants face hearing

Disciplinary hearings against four civil servants implicated in
the official Tamilgate' report (see Bulletin No 2) could lead to
the government officers being sacked if it is found that their
actions constituted a failure to observe their official
obligations.
As news of the impending hearings were made public, one of the
four, Frederik Schydt, director of the Directorate for Aliens,
requested a transfer to another department within the Home
Ministry.His move means that none of the civil servants
implicated in `Tamilgate' now works in a department dealing with
refugee and immigration matters (Jyllands-Posten 26.2.93).

Gypsies make hazardous return

Forty Gypsies from a Serb-controlled area of the former
Yugoslavia are to return home after giving up hope of gaining
political asylum in Denmark.Their decision came after
applications by seven other Gypsies were turned down
(Jyllands-Posten 2.2.93).

Refugees EC Europe

IRR European Race Audit no 3, 1993.
Contact: Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations,
2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS. Tel: ++ 071 837 0041