WFTU cadre illegally deported from Tel Aviv
The Israeli Police at Tel Aviv Airport arrested and illegally deported WFTU cadre
14 Jun 2015
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) denounces the illegal and undemocratic act of the Airport Police in Tel Aviv against comrade Alexandra Liberi who was legally travelling with all the necessary travelling documents to Palestine.
Sister Alexandra Liberi as a
Journalist was yesterday Saturday 13th June, in a mission of
WFTU in Ramallah of Palestine to participate with other WFTU
representatives in a seminar of the WFTU for the IT and
Internet training of young trade unionists.
Upon
arrival to the airport of Tel Aviv she was arrested from the
airport security under the justification that “WFTU is
putting in danger the safety of the State of Israel”. A
team of 15 policemen and one women was trying to terrorize
and intimidate her with threats and verbal abuse, they made
efforts to apply physical checking on her and take away
trade union documents and materials of the WFTU.
She
was kept in the Security of the Airport for 11 hours and
when she was escorted and boarded against her will in an
airplane and send away from Israel. Under escort from Israel
though Istanbul until Athens she return on Sunday a few
hours ago in Athens, Greece.
This incident is another
cause for the International Trade Union Movement to denounce
yet again loud and clear with all means possible:
-
the undemocratic and illegal practices of the Governments of
Israel
- to strenghten our internationalist solidarity
with the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people
- to
demand from the International Organizations that the
International laws will be applied everywhere without
exceptions.
Dear brothers and sisters, fellow
workers,
We the members and friends of the WFTU
celebrate this year the 70th Anniversary since the
foundation of the WFTU and we announce once again that we
are proud for our solidarity with the Palestinian people,
with all the Arab Workers. Such practices of the Israeli
government will not intimitade us, will not stop us. On the
contrary they make us more strong and they show us we are on
the right way.
We continue the struggle. We strengthen
our
internationalism.
ENDS