Jail for lack of an interpreter/Untersuchungshaft wegen fehlendem Dolmetscher
am 02.04.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
Der Sydney Morning Herald berichtet, dass ein Flüchtling aus Tansania in U-Haft bleiben musste, da bei drei Gerichtsterminen kein Dolmetscher für Swahili gefunden wurde:
A TANZANIAN refugee spent eight days in Silverwater jail last month, failing to win bail at three successive court hearings because he could not speak English and no Swahili interpreter was provided.
The director of the criminal law division of the NSW Legal Aid Commission, Brian Sandland, said Pius Bazigiye’s case was “a stark example of how a lack of interpreter services can impact on a person’s liberty”.
Luke Geary, a solicitor who assisted the man, said Mr Bazigiye had been charged …
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