Nicosia, Cyprus.: A 'historical account' of the asylum seekers struggle in Cyprus that started on the 4th of May 2006 and it still goes on.
No Media coverage has been given outside Cyprus.
Everything started with the uprising in one of Nicosia's -capital of Cyprus- detention centre. People are kept there nearly for two years. During the uprising a/s and police were injured.
The uprising sparked a more generalised protest. However, there was no violence during the demonstrations that followed.
It has became grave concern for us that many Nepalese, who have been the victims of semi- feudal, semi-colonial and undemocratic state of Nepal are taking asylum here as their rights are arrested by the German authorities from different parts of Germany.
Shrestha Rajkumar, Joshi Yogesh and Thapa Shailendra from Markishcher Kries, Sharma Kumar from Münster, Sharma Kumar from Olpe Kreis were arrested this weak and is in Büren prison to deport back to Nepal. There are other confirmed many reports of Nepalese who are arrested from other parts of the Northrein Westfalen and other States.
Currently 20 churches are being occupied in all of Belgium, in several different locations. Dozens of immigrants are on hunger strike. The people participating in the sit-ins are estimated to thousands. Their demand is regularisation of all sans-papiers on the basis of clear and permanent criteria, which is obstinately denied by the minister in charge Patrick deWaele. DeWaele rejected any responsibility for whatever will happen to the hunger strikers and denounced church and university officials and groups for supporting them, because this way "they are taking a political postion" (!! - as if it were a crime to "take a political postion").
PRESS RELEASE
HUNGER STRIKE IN THE DEPORTATION CENTRE EISENHÜTTENSTADT (Brandenburg)
On Saturday 29 April 2006 I began a hunger strike in the deportation centre of Eisenhüttenstadt. My name is Collivan Nso, I was born in Camerun and I have been in the Republic of Germany for three years.
The day before, on Friday 28 April 2006, I was arrested in Eisenhüttenstadt, sentenced to jail and brought inmediately aterwards brought to the deportation centre of Eisenhüttenstadt. I had come with my lawyer to the local representation of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BMF). The Federal Office had officially requested me to come to Eisenhüttenstadt in order to discuss my second application to be granted asylum. But inmediately after the interview I was arrested, brought to court and as a result sentenced to 3 months jail in a deportation centre.
From:
To:
Deutscher Bundestag
Petitionsauschuss
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin
Tel: 030-22735257
Fax: 030-22736053
Email: Vorzimmer.Peta@bundestag.de
Petition
Concerning: Protection for Refugees from the Togolese Dictatorship and Nationwide Deportationstop to Togo
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The German Bundestag (German parliament) may decide that--according to the corresponding articles of the General Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of Refugees, and the German Asylum Law-- refugees from Togo who fled from the dictatorship in their home country are granted protection in Germany and that deportations to Togo will not take place.
JUSTICE FOR NUUR SAEED CAMPAIGN Press Release Monday 20th March 2006 - For Immediate Release
An innocent young man is dead – Woolwich Somali community is met with silence from the police and the Independent Police Complaints Authority
Community to mount protest outside Plumstead Police Station, London SE 18 on Saturday 1st April at 1.30pm.
The Justice for Nuur Saeed have called a picket of Plumstead Police Station, South East London, to protest at the silence surrounding the tragic and suspicious death of 22 year old Somali man Nuur Saeed as a result of a police operation.
The Largest Demonstration in the History of California:
Today (25th of March 2006) in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California. March organizers announced from the stage that the crowd was over 1 million. Univision and other Spanish-language television reported that up to 2 million people marched. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting police estimates, gave the march 500,000 - police estimates have been trying to minimize pro-immigrant rights demonstration for the last few weeks.
Presse Release: Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh, Berlin/Dessau 30 January-2006
First Died Oury Jalloh - Now Mouctar Bah's Telecafé Is To Be Closed.
Bilingual Press Release for download, download arabic
Oury Jalloh, died in a police station in Dessau—tied at his hands and feet. Since his death on the 7th of January, 2005, our demands of truth, justice, and compensation have cynically been met with cover-up, injustice, and impunity. As if that wasn’t enough, now one of the few people who have been engaged in the struggle for the truth about Oury Jalloh’s death, Mouctar Bah, a friend of Oury and the representative of his family in Germany, is being criminalized. Those who were involved in Oury Jalloh’s death are not.
61 detainees currently detained in Harmondsworth signed a joint statement on Friday 20th January with ten demands concerning conditions at Harmondsworth; some have been refusing food, which they say they will continue until their demands are met.
Statement of 61 detainees at Harmondsworth
"We the detainees of Harmondsworth, having considered the various ill treatment being melted to us, having come out with the following complaints that need to be addressed and abated immediately.
seventh asylum seeker to die at his own hands in a UK detention centre (see below)
Bereket Yohannes, a 26 year-old-man from Eritrea, was found hanged in the showers in Hamondsworth detention centre near London at around 5.25 last Thursday the 19th January 2006.