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[Osmar Valdebenito]

It seems pretty clear that all had different experiences. I had problems in
Ben-Gurion because of my name (It's not Arab, it's German! look at
Wikipedia!) so I had to be almost one hour in each security control. They
confiscated my shaving machine and the people of my local airline (LAN) is
trying to recover. Dennis, the other Chilean, had his notebook confiscated
because its hard drive wasn't working (he had a problem at Wikimania).

It was funny that in the first control, they were asking me a lot of things.
And then when they asked me why I attended Wikimania and I say I was the
president of Wikimedia Chile, they stopped asking questions and "released"
me. Finally something good about having a Board position :P


2011/8/10 Иванов Вячеслав <v.ivanov at amikeco.ru>

> 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.
>
> 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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