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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Prominent Germany-based migration activist, Yahya Sonko, has said the rate of deportation of Gambians from EU countries has risen significantly and is expected be even higher in the coming months.<\/b><\/p>\n

Speaking Monday, after an anti- deportation protest march in Germany Saturday, Sonko attributed the surge in deportations to sanctions threatened by the EU on The Gambia if it refuses to accept itscitizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU is threatening financial sanctions and the Gambia government fears that could have far reaching implications and it is happy to accept deportees,\u201d Sonko said.<\/p>\n

He said the situation has never been this bad since President Barrow came to power in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has never been this worrying. Some Gambians here in Germany are running from their homes. It is traumatising. That\u2019s why we demonstrated last Saturday in Stuttgart to call on EU and the Gambia government to halt the deportations. One of our demands is for The Gambia to review the so-called \u2018Good Practice Agreement\u2019 it signed with the EU because that agreement is not in the interest of The Gambia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got official reports that this year alone the EU will be sending nine deportation flights, mostly from Germany, Italy, Sweden and others to Banjul,\u201d Mr Sonko, who is a speaker at the Refugee Council of Baden-Wu\u0308rttemberg for Gambia told said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cAll EU countries are arresting Gambians in masses that is why there is a deportation flight every month. Just few days ago, on 25 May, a chartered flight landed in The Gambia with 24 deportees and we can confirm that on 11 June there will be another flight, followed by another and another after that. Even The Gambia government confirmed that there will be deportation flights in May, June and July. We are expecting a huge number of deportees to arrive in The Gambia in the next few months. The 11 June flight is brining 34 Gambians.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last few months alone, Mr Sonko added, about 122 Gambians were deported from Germany and a total of ten flights are being prepared by Germany to deport Gambian migrants.<\/p>\n

Mr Sonko alleged that some migrants have been subjected to police brutality and called on the Gambia government to do more to protect its citizens from abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the German police go to the detention centres to get our boys, they would throw dogs at them to force them to come out and when they come out, they get chained like a bag of rice and thrown in the back of a truck. In the last deportation, 130 German officers escorted the boys to The Gambia. Imagine 130 police officers escorting just 35 migrants. It\u2019s painful. They treat them like murderers. I\u2019m calling on the National Human Rights Commission to investigate these incidents,\u201d Sonko charged.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Prominent Germany-based migration activist, Yahya Sonko, has said the rate of deportation of Gambians from EU countries has risen significantly and is expected be even higher in the coming months. 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