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PRESS RELEASEDecember 28, 2016
OVER 100 NORWEGIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS SEND LETTER OF SUPPORT TO INDIAN GOVERNMENT CONDEMNING CHILD SNATCHING IN NORWAYOver 100 Norwegian and International Activists, including
academics, lawyers, Norwegian politicians and European Parliamentarians and victims of Barnevernet, Norway’s child protection authorities have written to Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, supporting her intervention in the matter of the 5-year-old only child of Anil Kumar and Gurvinderjit Kaur who has been snatched by Barnevernet in Oslo, Norway on December 13, 2016.
The letter states that Barnevernet “has for many years been
wrongly taking children from loving parents in Norway. The reasons are incompetence, overbearing officials, lack of transparency, inadequate judicial oversight, and, in cases involving cultural and religious minorities, prejudice and racism.”
Norwegians have been campaigning against Norway’s cruel child protection regime for years and
this year alone there have been protests every month against Barnevernet attended by hundreds in cities around Norway.
Human Rights Activist and Commentator, Marius Reikeras, who led this effort from Norway, and has campaigned for justice for countless victims of Barnevernet said: “It is just wonderful to see the Indian- Norwegian cooperation, in order to stop Human Rights violations in this case, as well as in general. Thank you to everyone, who supports our battle in defeating Human Rights Crimes.”
The text of the letter to the Foreign Minister is below. The list of signatories is in the attached document.
These endorsements have been obtained via email and an online petition. More endorsements are coming on an hourly basis on
http://www.underskrift.no/vis/6449.
For further information from overseas, contact Marius Reikeras Tel: 0047462165973, Email:
marius@reikeras.no or other signatories whose details are listed in the letter. For further information in India contact: Suranya Aiyar, New Delhi, India
suranya_aiyar@yahoo.com, 9818886808.
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TEXT OF LETTER OF SUPPORT TO SUSHMA SWARAJ 28 December 2016To,
Her Excellency, Mrs Sushma Swaraj
External Affairs Minister of India
Subject: Norwegians and International Activists join Indians in urging Indian Government to save Indian child in Norway Dear Madam,
We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Norway, relatives of victims in Norway and activists from around the world, are writing to express our support for your intervention in the matter of the 5-year-old only child of Anil Kumar and Gurvinderjit Kaur who has been snatched by Barnevernet in Oslo, Norway last week.
Barnevernet, the Norwegian child protection authority has for many years been wrongly taking children from loving parents in Norway.
The reasons are incompetence, overbearing officials, lack of transparency, inadequate judicial oversight, and, in cases involving cultural and religious minorities, prejudice and racism.
Some of us have ourselves been victims of Barnevernet. We have been campaigning against Norway’s cruel child protection regime for years and this year alone there have been protests every month against Barnevernet attended by hundreds in cities around Norway. Supporting protests have been held in many countries around the world, including the United States of America, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Romania, Czechia, Lithuania and India.
We appreciate India’s earlier efforts in saving Indian children from Barnevernet and highlighting the human rights abuses of Barnevernet in Norway. We urge you to spare no effort in enabling the child of Anil Kumar and Gurvinderjit Kaur to be reunited with his family in Norway or repatriated to India where he can be brought up by his extended family in the country and culture of his origin, and to which he has been used since birth. This is his right under both Norwegian law and international law.
Signed
1. Marius Reikeras, Human Rights Activist and Commentator, Bergen, Norway, Tel: 0047462165973, Email:
marius@reikeras.no (Available for comment)
2. Professor Marianne Haslev Skanland, Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, Norway
Academic and Commentator on Child Rights in Norway
Website (with extensive information about Barnevernet):
http://www.mhskanland.net/page10/page10.html3. Jan Simonsen, Former Member of Norwegian Parliament, Oslo, Norway, Tel: 004741061176, Email:
jan.simonsen@hotmail.com (Available for comment)
4. Tomas Zedechovsky, Member of European Parliament (MEP), Belgium, Brussels (contact through Jitka Fialova, below)
5. Jitka Fialova, Prague, Czech Republic, Tel: 00420777022156, Email:
fialova@zdechovsky.eu (Available for comment)
6. & 7. Ken Joar Olsen, Asker, Norway & Vibeke Morrisey, Borgen, Norway
Parents of Baby Aria taken at birth by Norwegian authorities. Tel: 004748062884, Email:
ken.j.olsen@gmail.com (Available for comment)
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/JusticeforbabyAria/http://baby-aria-and-the-fight-for-justice.webnode.com/8. Tor Age Berglid, Blasket, Norway, Tel: 004795250112, Email:
taberglid@gmail.com (Available for comment)
Human Rights Activist and Commentator
FOR LIST OF REMAINING SIGNATORIES (121 AND COUNTING) SEE THE DOCUMENT ATTACHED TO THIS EMAIL.* * *
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