In a humanitarian gesture Kuwait has ended the ‘plight’ of 118 women and four children from the Republic of Madagascar by deporting them to their country aboard a private plane.
Al-Rai has learned from security sources the deportees were residence law violators and remained at the deportation prison for one whole year due to the closure of the airport in Madagascar because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The deportees left the country today upon instructions issued by the Minister of Interior Sheikh Thamer Al-Ali and the Undersecretary of the Ministry, Lieutenant-General Sheikh Faisal Al-Nawaf, to the Assistant Undersecretary for Correctional Institutions Affairs and the Execution of Sentences, Major-General Talal Marafi, to find quick solutions to the crisis of residence law violating female detainees.
The daily added, accordingly, coordination was made with a travel office approved by the Ministry of Interior to book a charter plane to end their suffering, especially since the General Administration of Deportation has been providing full care for them and the children of some of them for a full year.
The sources said the “Kuwaiti diplomatic efforts resulted in the opening of Madagascar’s airport to receive them, especially since the Republic of Madagascar does not have a diplomatic mission in the country.
The Directorate-General of Civil Aviation facilitated their travel procedures, local travel operator ITL World Travel coordinated the procedures.
The sources confirmed that “there are international agreements that oblige each country to take care of its citizens, and it is illogical that the embassies of some countries do not cooperate in caring for their detained citizens during their stay in the deportation prison, which prompts the competent authorities in Kuwait, from a moral and humanitarian point of view to provide their needs in cooperation with some charity associations.”