Online-Demonstration against Deportation Business

Call for a virtual blockade against the Lufthansa homepage

March 19, 2001

 

The organisations “No one is Illegal” and “Libertad!” have called on groups, organisations and individuals to show their outrage at deportations through a temporary blockade of the Lufthansa homepage. 

 

Every year more than 30 000 people are deported from Germany by airplane.  Lufthansa sells the vast majority of the so-called "deportee-tickets."  Consequently, "Deportation Class" is big business. However, it is not only that.  Since May 28, 1999 when the Sudanese citizen, Amir Ageeb, died on board of a Lufthansa flight as a result of ill-treatment by three German border guards, the company has faced growing pressure to renounce this dirty business.  Because of pressure, the Captains' Association has recommended that its members refuse the forced boarding of people or those handcuffed.  The Public Workers Union has also called on its members to take measures to stop the deportation flights.

 

For more information, on joining this Internet-based demonstration contact, online-demo@gmx.net or see www.deportation-alliance.com and www.libertad.de/projekte/depclass/demo.