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Mother in Germany separated from one-year-old son over Palestinian activism

Akkad, Dania
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-activist-germany-separated-child-say-lawyers

Publisher:  Middle East Eye
Date Written:  23/06/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

The European Legal Support Centre, which is supporting her case, say the woman is the latest victim of the German state’s weaponisation of residency issues to repress Palestinian solidarity. Since 2019, the Amsterdam-based legal advocacy group has documented at least 22 incidents in Germany in which residency status or restrictions to freedom of movement have been used to stifle such solidarity.

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This February, in response to an urgent appeal that Asilturk filed in November 2024, the administrative court in Berlin ruled that Dima’s son’s re-entry to Germany was not a matter of urgency.

“They said the son is in Jordan. He cannot come back to Germany, but the parents can go back to Germany and they can visit him,” Asilturk said. “Or they can stay in Jordan with him and wait until the main proceedings.”

But if Dima stayed in Jordan, she would lose her residence card, said Asilturk who has appealed the decision in the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg. Meanwhile, the family was separated for nine months in total, as Dima and her husband took turns leaving their son with family to try to maintain their lives in Germany.

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