On april 24 2010 about 1.000 antiracist activists gathered in the innercity of hamburg for a rally against the german deportation system. The reason to call for this protest was the second dead human found in deportation prisons in Hamburg in the last two month http://www.fluechtlingsrat-hamburg.de/ .
In March a young man from Georgia was found hanged in his cell. The german authorities planned his deportation to Poland. Using the Dublin II Agreement to denie refugee rights the authorities brought this young man in a desperate situation. After he stopped his hungerstrike in the deportation prison two days later he was found hanged in the cell. Some weeks later in the women prison a 34 year old woman from Indonesia was found hanged in her cell. She was arrested in February and put in deportation prison because of lacking residance permit according to the foreign office.
After a spontanous rally the week before and the symbolic occupation of the office of the "green party" - in government coalition with the christ democrats "CDU" in Hamburg - the march through the city showed again that people will not remain silent about the crimes against humanity organized by the german state.
Remarkable - the presence of migrants and refugees was hardly visible. It should be a signal which has to be reflected by all participants. How to support the struggles of refugees to achieve concrete aims and to widen the political consciousness about the meaning "colonial injustice" is another step.
Local group