Yazan awakened in hospital and on his way out of the country

Last evening, the Icelandic authorities picked up Yazan Tamimi, an eleven-year-old boy from Palestine with Duchenne disease, in Rjóðrið, the nursing and rehabilitation department of Landspítali Hospital for chronically disabled children, where he was sleeping.

The boy and his family are to be taken out of the country this morning.

This is confirmed by Albert Lúðvígsson, the family's lawyer, in an interview with mbl.is. A quick protest organized by the No Borders organization has started at Keflavík Airport, where the deportation is protested.

The police refuse to give information to the lawyer

Lúðvígsson learned of the deportation around midnight. The hospital's staff had then contacted the rights defender of the disabled and informed him that the police had come and picked up Yazan at the hospital.

The police have refused to give Lúðvígsson information about the case. They have not even confirmed with him that Yazan and his family have been taken and that they will be deported today.

He has therefore not received information from the authorities about which country Yazan should be taken to.

The family has not had a chance to talk to Lúðvígsson with the help of an interpreter.

Reprehensible reaction

Lúðvígsson says there is no need to call for these actions by the police, that Yazan, an eleven-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy, is woken up as he lies asleep in the hospital and will be kept waiting in difficult conditions in Leifsstöð.

He says this is hard-nosed practice and reprehensible work practices.

Then he says it is in a gray area that he is mostly denied access to his client.