[Wikimania-l] CD

[Florence Devouard]

On 8/10/11 7:52 PM, Иванов Вячеслав wrote:
> 10.08.2011, 14:35, "Florence Devouard"<anthere at anthere.org>:
>> No bad ill toward the really wonderful organizers of Wikimania (you
>> really rocked !), but to me, this behavior at borders security goes
>> beyond what I consider acceptable. Even if it has no obvious outcome, I
>> would really like that those who had bad experience report it either to
>> their embassy or to Israel officials. Somehow, I think that a 3 hours
>> check, with body search and confiscation of items, for citizens who show
>> really no sign of being dangerous for the State of Israel and which are
>> leaving the country (not entering it) and doing so in non-Israelian
>> flight companies, is simply not respectful of human rights.
> That might be put in other words — like not respecting the local situation and local standard procedures.

If local standard procedures involve stealing people property, I would 
not say this deserve any respect. Stealing is stealing. In any country.


Florence

>
> Being thoroughly checked twice both at entrance and at the departure, I never felt even slightly enoyed by that. It's another country, another situation, we are not even slightly capable to understand fully.
>
> The world is not everywhere like it is in Schengen. And, btw, at least in Israel they didn't took my fingerprints as they did a couple of years on the border of Finland (the only place on Earth having my fingerprints now).
>
> Viatcheslav / User:Amikeco
> http://amikeco.ru
>
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