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6 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 1 AUGUST 2021 NEWS MINISTRY FOR AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, FOOD AND ANIMAL RIGHTS Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency Luqa Road, Qormi QRM 9075 – Malta ARPA PROJECT OFFICER Eligible candidates are invited to apply for the positions of ARPA Project Officer within the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights (MAFA). Prospective ARPA Project Officers shall be requested to fulfil positions and assigned tasks in areas within the Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency's organisation structure. This position offers an attractive remuneration package with potential career prospects. If this sounds the right opportunity for you, then you are to submit an application for the attention of Director General ARPA by no later than 03rd August 2021 through the Online Government Recruitment Portal on https://recruitment.gov.mt by the said closing time and date of this call for applications. Further details may be obtained by contacting Ms Michelle Tabone on 22924512 or by sending an email on humaresources.mafa@gov.mt. MINISTRY FOR AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, FOOD AND ANIMAL RIGHTS Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency Luqa Road, Qormi QRM 9075 – Malta ARPA PROJECT OFFICER Eligible candidates are invited to apply for the positions of ARPA Project Officer within the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights (MAFA). Prospective ARPA Project Officers shall be requested to fulfil positions and assigned tasks in areas within the Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency's organisation structure. This position offers an attractive remuneration package with potential career prospects. If this sounds the right opportunity for you, then you are to submit an application for the attention of Director General ARPA by no later than 03rd August 2021 through the Online Government Recruitment Portal on https://recruitment.gov.mt by the said closing time and date of this call for applications. Further details may be obtained by contacting Ms Michelle Tabone on 22924512 or by sending an email on humaresources.mafa@gov.mt. t: +356 2292 6148 e: arpa.mafa@gov.mt w: www.arpa.gov.mt MINISTRY FOR AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, FOOD AND ANIMAL RIGHTS Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency Luqa Road, Qormi QRM 9075 – Malta ARPA PROJECT OFFICER Eligible candidates are invited to apply for the positions of ARPA Project Officer within the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights (MAFA). Prospective ARPA Project Officers shall be requested to fulfil positions and assigned tasks in areas within the Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency's organisation structure. This position offers an attractive remuneration package with potential career prospects. If this sounds the right opportunity for you, then you are to submit an application for the attention of Director General ARPA by no later than 03rd August 2021 through the Online Government Recruitment Portal on https://recruitment.gov.mt by the said closing time and date of this call for applications. Further details may be obtained by contacting Ms Michelle Tabone on 22924512 or by sending an email on humaresources.mafa@gov.mt. MATTHEW AGIUS NATIONALIST MEP Robert Metsola and Moviment Graffitti have added their voice to a cho- rus of support for two Turkish teachers who have been sepa- rated from their young children, after being jailed for the use of false documents to leave the is- land. The two-hour stopover in Malta turned into a six-month nightmare for Rabia Yavuz and Muzekka Deneri, who were car- rying fake European Union iden- tity cards to travel to Belgium and renew documentation after allegedly fleeing arrest in Tur- key on suspicion of having taken part in a failed coup. Also arrested were two Syrian – not their husbands – who were also jailed for six months on charges of forgery and using fal- sified identification documents. The women were also jailed, and forcibly separated from their distraught 2 and 4-year-old chil- dren, whose screams could be heard as the two women were taken away. Legal aid lawyer Christopher Chircop told MaltaToday the two women are connected to the Gulen movement involved in the 2016 failed coup d'etat against Recep Tayyep Erdogan. Fleeing to Greece to escape the post- coup purges, they had to renew documents that were about to expire in Brussels, a flight which involved a two-hour stopover in Malta. Chircop says he informed po- lice inspector Karl Roberts of this, but the police insisted on prison in court proceedings af- ter the women pleaded guilty. A care order over the children would have been triggered while in the care of the Appoġġ social welfare agency. Nationalist MEP and Europe- an Parliament vice-president Roberta Metsola yesterday ex- pressed her horror over the ar- rests, saying the children were unable to speak Maltese or Eng- lish: "A system that jails mothers for half a year and takes away their children for using a fake ID card, while using kids' gloves against career criminals, shad- ow bankers, dodgy architects, corrupt politicians, revenge pornographers, organised crime and money launderers, is a sys- tem that is broken." Metsola railed against what she called a "shattered system that is weak with the strong and strong with the weak." "It throws the book at foreign mothers using fake ID cards, terrorises youths caught with a half-a-joint, threatens journal- ists seeking the truth. It forces teenagers to grow up under the spectre of a jail sentence as they wait 12 years for a judgement. It leaves parents waiting years to see their children as cases drag on and on. It's a system that needs to be rebuilt." Moviment Graffiti has called recent judgments on migration as "forms of institutionalised racism" after courts were dishing out six-month prison sentences to mainly foreign migrants at- tempting to leave the island with false documents. Graffiti said that although the Malta Immigration Act does provide for a six month to two- year sentenced for such acts, community-based sanctions were permissible under the Pro- bation Act. "This discrimina- tory use of sentencing towards migrants and asylum seekers demonstrates that the criminal courts are being deliberately over punitive towards the most vulnerable. " They added "cruel" prison sen- tences are contributing to the current overpopulation crisis in the prison system. "While organised crime and human trafficking are not to be ignored, there is a dire need for a more humane approach in deal- ing with immigration offences, so that the vulnerable are not criminalised and enmeshed in criminal justice processes. "This is definitely not the scope of the criminal justice system which is supposed to provide a fair and just treatment to all as well as to ensure that the severity of the punishment is proportion- ate to the offence committed." Metsola: 'Broken system' that jailed mothers over false IDs must be rebuilt Nationalist MEP Robert Metsola