To add more to this, day before yesterday, at Hithro Airport in London Malini Chib was frisked in an undignified manner. I think growing greater threat to ssecurity worldwide and respecting human dignity of persons with disabilities need greater sensitisation world over. On 2/25/14, Vikas Kapoor <dl.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: > DU professor with disability harassed at Hyderabad airport > > > NEW DELHI: Yet another disabled passenger was harassed at the airport on > Friday. Satendra Singh, who was travelling from Hyderabad to Delhi, was > asked by security at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to > remove his leg brace during frisking. Singh, who teaches at the University > College of Medical Sciences, Delhi University, has post-polio residual > paralysis and uses a knee-foot-ankle-orthosis (KFAO) also called a caliper > or brace, for support. > > The confrontation with security officials - the latest in a string of such > encounters between differently-abled passengers and airport officials - > lasted about 20 minutes before the officials capitulated. "They wanted me to > remove the caliper and run it through the x-ray machine," says Singh, "In my > case that's quite difficult as it goes up to the thigh. I would've had to > remove my trousers to take the caliper off. It was humiliating. I wanted > them to carry out an Explosive Trace Detector (ETD) test and was willing to > let them frisk me." > > Singh, ironically, was returning from a conference on "Evidence in Global > Disability & Health" in Hyderabad. Employees of the airline were also called > but a senior officer finally permitted a ETD. Singh also had to explain that > what he uses isn't a prosthetic limb but an orthosis into which he has to > place his leg for support. > > "We are merely implementing guidelines issued by the Bureau Civil Aviation > Security (BCAS). Our officers have been trained and briefed on how to deal > with differently-abled passengers and we make sure nobody is harassed > unnecessarily," said Hemendra Kumar, spokesperson, CISF. Singh, however, > adds that he flies within India frequently but has never had to face this > before. > > Aviation security officials say people with medical implants won't face any > trouble and simply need to show a medial certificate. However, there is no > standard rule for those with external aides and a doctor's certificate may > not be enough to clear security. > > "The screening officer has to be satisfied that the external aides are for > genuine use. For this, profiling is done and if the screening officer is not > satisfied, he or she may ask for the aides to be taken off and screened. In > the 1980s, a Delhi-Srinagar flight was hijacked by a person who hid weapons > inside his plaster and carried a doctor's certificate for the same to clear > security. We cannot take chances as a medical certificate can be easily > obtained. We regret the inconvenience caused to anyone," said an official. > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/DU-professor-with-disability-harassed-at-Hyderabad-airport/articleshow/30971043.cms > > Vikas Kapoor, > Mobile: (+91) 9891098137 > Skype Id: dl_vikas > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. >
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