{"id":26773,"date":"2016-01-20T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/?p=26773"},"modified":"2016-01-20T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:16:00","slug":"danish-nightclubs-to-ban-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/danish-nightclubs-to-ban-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish Nightclubs Look To Ban Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Following multiple complaints of harassement from female patrons in the cities of Thisted, Sonderborg and Haderslev, many Danish Nightclubs have began implemented &#8220;language controls&#8221;, only permitting speakers of English, German, or Danish entrance to\u00a0venues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the issue of harassment in nightlife is well known (and one that still must be addressed constructively), this particular action\u00a0targets foreign men, specifically those from the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMany of the refugees and asylum seekers who go out at the weekend do not know the rules. When they see a girl, they go crazy, trying to grope her or grab her clothes,\u201d<\/em> Haderslev night club owner <strong>Rafi Ibrahim<\/strong> (himself an immigrant from Syria)\u00a0told the <a href=\"http:\/\/cphpost.dk\/news\/danish-nightspots-report-that-male-refugees-are-assaulting-female-customers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copenhagen Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the controls have encountered heavy criticism, with a local <strong>Amnesty International<\/strong> branch claiming the practices to be discriminatory.\u00a0<em>\u201cYou can\u2019t make a general rule that states that you can\u2019t come in if you come from a certain country that has created problems before,\u201d <\/em>a consultant for the organization said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the controls had already been implemented in the autumn, with disturbances of the nature being reported throughout North Europe including cities like Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and, of course, have gained\u00a0much steam with the recent New Year&#8217;s Eve events in Cologne. Denmark has already been quite strict on incoming migrants, introducing a new bill (which will be voted on this Thursday)\u00a0aimed at stripping refugees of valuables, to &#8220;cover the costs the country bears in connection with housing them&#8221;. The bill would allow authorities to claim individual items whose combined value exceeds 10,000 kroner (\u20ac1,340, $1,450).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>UN High Commissioner for Refugees<\/strong> has described the overall Danish response to the migrant crisis as &#8220;<em>deeply concerning&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/329411-denmark-clubs-refugees-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following multiple complaints of harassement from female patrons in the cities of Thisted, Sonderborg and Haderslev, many Danish Nightclubs have began implemented &#8220;language controls&#8221;, only permitting speakers of English, German, or Danish entrance to\u00a0venues. Though the issue of harassment in nightlife is well known (and one that still must be addressed constructively), this particular action\u00a0targets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":26774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3972],"tags":[5036,1464,460,8299,8298,8301,8302,7146,8300],"class_list":["post-26773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-london","tag-berlin-london","tag-cologne","tag-denmark","tag-germant","tag-grankfurst","tag-migrant","tag-nightclub-ban","tag-refugee","tag-stuttgart","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}