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Austria Builds 'Camp' in Mountains

Tuesday, October 07, 2008
VIENNA, Austria - Far-right Gov. Joerg Haider has set up a facility in the remote mountains of southern Austria to handle asylum seekers suspected as criminals, saying they need to be isolated to protect the people in the area.

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"The whole thing sounds strongly like banishment," said Heinz Patzelt, head of Austria's chapter of Amnesty International. "There's no place for that in a modern system with a rule of law."

Haider's spokesman Stefan Petzner said no one's rights were being violated.

"It's a perfectly normal establishment far away from civilization in a secluded area so they can't get up to anything," said Petzner. "You shouldn't think of this as a prison surrounded by barbed wire."

He said that the asylum seekers were allowed to move about freely on the premises but were being monitored.

The holding center in a former children's home is only for asylum seekers suspected as criminals. But Petzner said conviction was not a "mandatory prerequisite" for being sent there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_re_eu/eu_austria_asylum_seekers_3



Have I mentioned my visceral distrust of Austrians? Potential fascists, the lot of them.