Thursday, 31 May, 2012

Deportation observer: 'Tension is high at the airport'

Last year, the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches accepted a mandate from the Federal Office for Migration to monitor deportation flights by appointing and coordinating observers. While the churches no longer oversee the work—the five chosen observers are continuing until a new body, the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture, takes over jurisdiction in July. WRS’s Dave Goodman spoke to one of the observers, Martina Caroni, who’s a law professor at the University of Lucerne and began by asking what the role actually entails:

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