Suspended jail term for pregnant Somali
A 26-year-old pregnant woman from Somalia was this morning jailed six months suspended for three years after she pleaded for escaping Malta in 2010.
The woman, Raho Adam Mohammed, 26, was charged with leaving Malta without a passport.
The court heard police inspector Geoffrey Azzopardi explain how the accused, who is currently seven months pregnant, left Malta in about 2010 but was caught in The Netherlands, from where she was sent back to Malta.
Through her lawyer, Ms Mohammed said that her request for asylum had been denied so she could only leave Malta a passport.
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Louise Vella
Jul 27th 2012, 21:52
Malta’s refugee commissioner Mr Mario Guido Friggieri is known to be generous. Malta’s rate of acceptance of asylum applications is twice as high as that of other EU member states. If the refugee commissioner turned down her application he must have had a very good reason. It is not true Ms Mohammed had no option but to escape illegally. She had and still has the option of going back to Somalia, large parts of which are enjoying peace and prosperity.
Marthese Mussett
Jul 26th 2012, 21:03
Mhux bla passaport dahlet!Mela halluha ha titlaq minghajru...jekk trid toqghod l Olanda...mela halluha hemm.Ghandna bizzejjed klandestini ta Nazzjonalitajiet differenti....u forsi hawn ma kinitx komda lanqas...halluhuom min irid jitlaq ahjar jitlaq...
Ms.D. Galea
Jul 26th 2012, 20:51
Have the Netherlands put up the FULL UP sign?
S.M. Cuschieri
Jul 26th 2012, 20:04
I would have let her go!
Steve Pace
Jul 26th 2012, 15:28
What nationality will her offspring have on the birth certificate ?
D Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 15:11
. . . this begs the question; 'exactly what purpose does this suspended jail sentence serve?'
Colin Stanley
Jul 26th 2012, 14:53
VIVA L'EUROPA.
GL Calleja
Jul 26th 2012, 14:33
So they arrive here without a passport and we put them in a detention camp They escape from Malta (intentionally) and then brought back to Malta because they don't have a passport? They enter Malta without a passport and we have to keep them here, but if they enter another EU State without a passport then they are sent back to Malta?That is a real Human Rights violation. Where are the bleeding hearts, the EU and the UNHCR that tell us how bad we are treating these illegal immigrants? They don't want to be here and yet all three, especially the EU does not want them to leave. When are the EU and UNHCR going to stop using these people as pawns? When are they going to stop using Malta as a scapegoat to protect the rest of the EU States? Let them go if that is what they want to do. Do the Humanly thing.
R. Cilia
Jul 26th 2012, 16:16
Well said. As for your last question, only when the maltese authorities decide to stand up and be counted.
Louise Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 14:31
Nobody invited Raho Adam Mohammed to come to Malta and nobody should be keeping her in Malta against her will. If her request for asylum has been denied she should be repatriated immediately.
Pippo De Marco
Jul 26th 2012, 15:37
Absolutely right, Louise.
Furthermore, if the Dutch knew her asylum application had been denied (assuming they bothered to ask ) then why did they send her back to Malta ? - They should have just sent her back to Somalia instead of coming back here, pregnant, to receive a useless suspended sentence.
I suspect that the Dutch were following the rules of the EU Red Tape factory rather than the rules of common sense.
Anthony Arpa
Jul 26th 2012, 14:29
Our coasts are wide open for such illigal emigrant ..... So why do the awtorities will not also leave our coasts wide open and free for those refeugies and the illigal imigrants who will decides to runaway from Malta .
Patrick Zammit
Jul 26th 2012, 15:29
Mr A Arpa
Because our Nationalist government signed the Lisbon Treaty which gives authority to other EU countries to send back the illegal economic immigrants that enter Malta in the first place and obliges Malta to take them back.
Roderick Cristina
Jul 26th 2012, 14:16
this is wrong!!! :) we should help them leave the country!
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