{"id":289711,"date":"2017-01-12T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/demonstration-in-germany-against-deportations-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T23:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T22:25:06","slug":"demonstration-in-germany-against-deportations-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/demonstration-in-germany-against-deportations-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration in Germany against deportations to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\"><\/h3>\n<p>Marianne Arens<\/p>\n<p>More than a thousand people protested last Saturday in Frankfurt against the German government\u2019s deportation of refugees to Afghanistan. After a rally at the central Opernplatz square, a growing number of people joined the peaceful demonstration in the downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>On December 14, 34 Afghan refugees were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2016\/12\/16\/refu-d16.html\">deported<\/a> in a special charter plane from the Rhein-Main Airport, and additional group deportations to Kabul are planned later this month. Last year, a total of 25,000 people were deported from Germany, primarily from the Frankfurt Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The rally in front of the old opera house was called on January 7 by the Frankfurt Afghan Hindu Cultural Association and other associations of Hindus and Sikhs. Their placards read \u201cStop Deportation and Persecution,\u201d \u201cWe are human beings and not numbers!\u201d \u201cEqual Rights for Refugees,\u201d \u201cKeep families together,\u201d and \u201cI would like to live as a human being instead of dying as a Sikh in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before 1980, up to 220,000 Hindus and Sikhs lived in Afghanistan, according to a spokesperson of the organizers. However, their number has fallen to 1,300 because under neither the Taliban nor the current NATO-supported government has it been possible for them to live a peaceful life, free of physical threat. In reality, the country is highly unsafe for all civilians today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width: 480px; oveflow: hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 480px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/23344580-c586-4bdc-a835-c388a63109aA\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" \/>The rally at the Opernplatz in Frankfurt<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe came to Germany with high hopes,\u201d continued the spokesperson. \u201cWe have settled down and become a part of the society and support newcomers whenever we can. But that belongs to the past.\u201d The group deportations into a land of crisis have struck refugee communities from Afghanistan at the heart, he said:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/12\/demo-j12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Arens More than a thousand people protested last Saturday in Frankfurt against the German government\u2019s deportation of refugees to Afghanistan. After a rally at the central Opernplatz square, a growing number of people joined the peaceful demonstration in the downtown area. On December 14, 34 Afghan refugees were deported in a special charter plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}