The NGO criticizes the differentiated treatment of refugees according to their origins as well as the multiple restrictive or “paneway to discriminatory practices”.
Le Monde with AFP.
France is “very far from the exemplarity that we could expect from it” in respect of public freedoms and human rights, denounces Amnesty International in its report 2021, published on Tuesday, March 29. The critical organization includes a different migrant welcome policy depending on whether they are Ukrainian or other nationalities. “What we have seen since a few weeks slice singularly with the way, last year, the public authorities spoke about the welcome of Afghans” fleeing their country after the resumption of the power of the Taliban in mid-August, Recalled in the press Nathalie Godard, Director of Action for Amnesty International France.
The state has set up a reception and accommodation scheme offering “at least 100,000 places”, according to Prime Minister, Jean Castex, for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. On August 16, in his intervention on Afghanistan, Emmanuel Macron had called to “anticipating and protecting us against significant irregular migration flows,” Grin Amnesty International.
M me Godard also evokes the temporary protection granted by the EU Ministers to the Ukraine refugees who had also been asked for Afghans, without success. ” “It’s an illustration of the” two weights, two measures “today very denounced,” she added.
“Degrading treatments”
Temporary protection will allow Ukrainian refugees to stay up to three years in the European Union, to work, access the school system and receive medical care. Amnesty International also stigmatizes the “degrading treatment” suffered by the exiles, notably in Calais (Pas-de-Calais): “Police and local authorities have limited their access to humanitarian aid and have subjected them to harassment maneuvers . “
Critics on the fate of migrants in Calais and Grande-Synthe (North) have been restarted after the Fatal shipwreck at 27 of them who were trying to cross the Channel on 24 November, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) denouncing in particular tent lacerations during evacuations, with the approval of the authorities. The latter have challenged the charges.
In its annual report, Amnesty International also concludes that France “is part of the 67 countries in the world that” adopted in 2021 of the laws that restrict freedom of expression, association and meeting “.
The NGO cites the promulgation at the end of July 2021 of the Terrorism Prevention Act, which enter into particular the individual administrative and monitoring measures (micas).
The Act respecting criminal liability and internal security of January 24, 2022, authorizing the captures of images of manifestations by the drones, constitutes, it, according to Amnesty, “one more step towards mass surveillance”.
Finally, the so-called “separatism” law of August 24 “may pave the way for discriminatory practices” under the fight against radical Islamism, considers the organization.