Anyone who has dealt with immigration in various capacities over the
last twenty-five years has had to deal with dramatic, often tragic and -more than once - absolutely grotesque situations on many occasions. ----
After all, the entire mechanism of managing migratory flows, in Italy
and Europe, is based on regulations and assumptions that are beyond any
logic as well as any sense of humanity. To be honest, if those who
conceive and enforce the laws do not know where humanity lives, even a
modicum of common sense would be enough to improve rules that are as
absurd as they are aberrant. However, we are quite aware that in the
institutions, and among those who govern us, common sense is truly a
rare commodity.
The latest immigration story, dramatic and Kafkaesque at the same time,
takes us straight to Calabria but begins in Iran.
Following the very strong protests of Iranian youth - and especially
women - that inflamed the country between the end of 2022 and 2023, the
repressive response of the Tehran regime was very harsh: thousands of
arrests, killings, arbitrary detentions, summary executions and death
sentences.
Among the thousands of women who courageously challenged the
obscurantist and misogynist policies of the Iranian theocracy there was
also Maysoon Majidi, 28 years old, Kurdish, director and actress very
committed to the defense and promotion of human rights, for the freedom
and self-determination of women. At a certain point for Maysoon life in
Iran had become impossible and so, after being fired from the university
where she worked, she decided to leave the country. A story damned
similar to so many others, which led her - on New Year's Eve 2023 - to
land on the Calabrian coast. The idea is to ask for protection by virtue
of her status as a political persecuted person in her homeland, but the
Italian Republic has a very different treatment in store for her.
Maysoon is taken to prison, in Castrovillari, where she remains for six
months. The accusation is that of being a smuggler. A person, that is,
who actively works to organize and carry out the irregular entry of
immigrants within our borders. The ones who accused her were two
companions who, shortly after, retracted everything, explaining to
Maysoon's lawyer that they had been completely misunderstood by the
Italian authorities who had collected their statements, claiming that
their statements were full of errors due to a bad translation.
Now Maysoon Majidi is in the prison of Reggio Calabria where she was
transferred on July 5. The charge on which she is being held is aiding
and abetting irregular immigration pursuant to art. 12 of the
Consolidated Law on Immigration. An accusation that blocks the road to
obtaining humanitarian protection. But we will return to this shortly.
Another Iranian woman, Marjan Jamali, is in a similar situation. She
arrived in Italy last year on a sailing boat with about a hundred other
people. Marjan had fled Iran, along with her seven-year-old son, to
escape government repression and beatings from her partner. She too was
defamatoryly accused of being a trafficker, brought by three men - who
later disappeared - who were on the same boat and who, according to
Marjan herself, had tried to abuse her without success. Needless to say,
the testimonies of the other migrants, which cleared her of any
operational role in the crossing to Italy, were not taken into
consideration. While Marjan is still awaiting trial and is a guest, by
order of the judge, at a reception facility together with her son, the
court in Crotone has just denied Maysoon house arrest, in the second
hearing, after nine months of unjust imprisonment. Now he weighs forty
kilos and his conditions are becoming increasingly worrying, even from a
psychological point of view.
The two stories, completely similar, are united by this hypothesis of
crime provided for by article 12 of the Consolidated Law on Immigration
(remember the Turco-Napolitano law of 1998?) in which anyone who
"promotes, directs, organizes, finances or carries out the transport of
foreigners into the territory of the State or carries out other acts
aimed at illegally procuring their entry into the territory of the
State" is punished.
Italian legislation differs from international legislation on an element
that, when speaking of human trafficking, should be decisive: profit.
In the United Nations Protocol adopted in 2000 (and ratified by Italy),
migrant trafficking is defined in Article 3 as "the procuring - in order
to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or material advantage -
the irregular entry of a person into a State of which the person is not
a citizen or permanent resident". This completely self-evident concept
is also reiterated in Article 6, and serves precisely to protect not
only the victims of human trafficking but also to clearly distinguish
those who help people in difficulty from those who, instead, organize
routes and movements for profit.
There is no trace of this necessary distinction in Italian law, and this
explains the absurdity of these and many other stories.
The repressive fury that these two Iranian women are enduring is the
result not only of a deeply unjust and mistaken law, but also of the
political climate fueled by this unpresentable government that in the
aftermath of the Cutro massacre declared war on smugglers "across the
globe". This promise, full of that caricatured rhetoric of which Giorgia
Meloni is particularly capable, hid the precise will to unload onto the
last link in the chain all the political responsibilities that are at
the root of the tragedies linked to migration, in Italy and beyond, and
that must be sought in very different contexts.
As reiterated for years and in every way by anti-racist movements
"across the globe", it is the borders and the liberticidal laws that
kill people by not allowing them to move freely through safe and regular
channels, without having to resort to criminals, mafiosi, border guards
and smugglers.
The laws that seek to "regulate" immigration are deliberately absurd
because they serve to create "illegal immigrants", to force them to die
in the attempt to change their lives, to criminalize them in every way
when they set foot here.
The repression of migrants, which is a constitutive fact of state
policies, has an even more hateful flavor when it gives rise to
incredible events such as those we have recounted. In a historical
moment in which, with enormous sacrifices, gender issues are beginning
to emerge in an increasingly effective manner in the international
public and political debate, the treatment that the Italian authorities
are reserving for the Iranians Maysoon Majidi and Marjan Jalali is truly
indefensible and reveals, once again, the violent and reactionary nature
of this government.
TAZ laboratory of libertarian communication
https://umanitanova.org/liberta-per-maysoon-e-marjan-due-donne-iraniane-prigioniere-del-governo-fascista-italiano/
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