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A few years back there were some stories in a Swedish newspaper about a method for medical age estimation of asylum seekers developed by a government agency. I
by bjornsing 3y ago
A few years back there were some stories in a Swedish newspaper about a method for medical age estimation of asylum seekers developed by a government agency. I could hardly believe my eyes when the person responsible for the accuracy of the method was quoted as saying that it was very reliable, because it used two unreliable methods to estimate if the person was above 18 years old, and then concluded that they were 18+ if either method so indicated. You don’t need to be a genius to realize your false 18+ rate will be higher when combining two methods in this way than it would be if you used a single method, but he argued the opposite.
This caught my attention and I spent an inordinate amount of time, together with a group of other concerned people, trying to convince this government authority they were wrong, and later to expose them for it / stop them from continuing. But it sadly turned out to be next to impossible. They persisted with inaccurate/false affidavits and court testimony for years, until finally the minister of justice ordered a formal probe into the method. They then patched it up as best they could without exposing their previous errors, and pretended like nothing had happened. The formal probe issued an interim report with pretty harsh commentary, and was then cancelled by the minister of justice before it could give its final report.
Forever changed my view of the Swedish justice system.
- cpill 3y agoMimics my impression of Sweden in general. It's not a nice place of you are not Swedish.
- bedobi 3y agoin this case it's the opposite - the policy allowed asylum seekers to claim and benefit from being considered to be 18 or younger when they were in fact obviously 30+ but yeah your impression is not wrong, Sweden is not a nice place lol
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- rossant 3y agoPretty much the same thing happened in France: https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-du-droit-des-jeunes-2009-5-page-33.htm https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-du-droit-des-jeunes-200... (in French) Experts using scientifically unreliable methods to determine that asylum seekers are 18+ and can therefore be expelled from the French territory.