Former Danish Prime Minister arrested for separating couples seeking asylum | Migration Issues

The former immigration minister has sentenced him to 60 days in jail for separating families who want to flee.

A former Danish immigration minister has been sentenced to two months in jail after a special court found him guilty of separating several refugee families from the mother’s childhood.

“Inger Stojberg has been found guilty of willful violation of the Ministerial Responsibility Act,” the Danish Court of Impeachment of the Realm said on Monday, adding that the sentence was suspended for 60 days in jail.

Stojberg has been charged with felony criminal mischief for violating a European Convention on Civil and Political Rights by deciding whether to divorce his or her spouses.

The former prime minister has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning intelligence have been made more than once in September.

Although the ruling has not been overturned, those in Denmark who have been working for less than six months are eligible to have a computer scan instead, which means Stojberg will not be able to stay in prison at any time.

In 2016, 23 couples, most of whom had minor age differences, were separated without any individual investigation, following the minister’s advice. They were then placed in various locations where their cases were being considered.

His decision was found to be “illegal” because the arrangement was made without exception and the immigration agency did not consider any charges.

“Stojberg said he launched the program to protect young girls and to end child marriage,” said Mohammed Jamjoom of Al Jazeera from Copenhagen, Denmark.

“She has remained innocent in all its forms, from the moment she was gone to the point of no return.

“Last year the committee [set up to investigate] he asserted that Stojberg’s law was, in effect, a ‘not lawful’ … and that this was why the trial court had been set up. “

Parliament now has to decide whether to remove Stojberg from parliament.

By serving as Minister of Immigration and Integration from 2015 to 2019 in the right-wing government supported by the Danish People’s Party (DF), Stojberg helped to strengthen the anti-immigration policy in Denmark.

He boasted that he had approved more than 110 anti-immigration measures.

During his tenure, he also issued a warrant for the confiscation of immigrants’ money to pay for his care in Denmark.

This is the third time since 1910 that a politician has been sent to a Danish 26-judge court, which is scheduled to try a cabinet case for misconduct or negligence while in office.

The last case began in 1993 with “Tamilgate”, the illegal cold of Tamil refugee families in 1987 and 1988 by former Conservative Minister Erik Ninn-Hansen.

Ninn-Hansen spent four months in prison.