Press Conference regarding the 2^nd anniversary of the murder of Oury Jalloh
To Whom It May Concern,
the *Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh* invites you to a press conference regarding the 2^nd anniversary of the murder of Oury Jalloh.
The press conference will be held at 10am on January 5, 2006, in the Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte (Greifswalderstr. 4) in Berlin.
Sunday, 7th of January, 2007 -- Demonstrations in Memory of Oury Jalloh:
Berlin: 1 pm Hackescher Markt
Dessau: 1 pm Central Train Station
Oury Jalloh burned to death in a police cell in Dessau on the 7th of January, 2005. Two years have now gone by; two years in which the court in Dessau has effectively blocked any hearings from taking place against the responsible police officers. This alone is evidence enough that neither the police nor the judiciary is willing to see that the events surrounding the death of Oury Jalloh are clarified.
On 10th of October 2006 the six-month deportation-stop to Togo has expired in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Since then the pressure on Togolese refugees has become stronger again: On 29th of November several refugees were deported from Düsseldorf to Ghana and Togo. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern several refugees were asked to go to the Togolese embassy in Berlin at 15th of December. In Ludwigslust one Togolese was arrested on the Ausländerbehörde and put into deportation-prison. Actually he wanted to marry. Therefore he was obliged to hand out his passport to the authorities. Additionally there is some rumour that on 22nd of December a further deportation-charter is supposed to go to West Africa. So far it was not possible to confirm this particular information.
We call for these actions to come together in a worldwide mobilization for Oaxaca on December 22, 2006 - Communiqué of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee, General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
To the people of Mexico:
To the people of the world:
Brothers and Sisters:
The attack that our brothers, the people of Oaxaca suffered and suffer cannot be ignored by those who fight for freedom, justice and democracy in all corners of the planet.
By Jared Rodriguez
December 1, 2006
NEW YORK City police pumped 50 bullets into a car carrying three unarmed African American men in the early morning hours of November 25, killing one man on his wedding day.
The hail of bullets killed 23-year-old Sean Bell, a father of two children aged three years and five months, who was to be married later in the day. Two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield were seriously wounded. All five NYPD officers on the scene fired at the car. One emptied two full magazines from his 9mm Glock, firing a total of 31 times.
Around 10pm on 28 November, 2006, a group of detainees started a riot in Wing B after a guard switched off the TV preventing them from watching a report about Harmondsworth, and it soon spread to all 4 wings. Some detainees have reportedly been beaten up, while others were kept locked in, with fires and smoke all over the place [reports and updates]. 'Specialist officers' from prisons across the south of England were brought in to help the prison and immigration services 'contain the situation'. Everything is 'under control' now, according to the Home Office. [John Reid Invokes Riechstag Fire Tactics For Detention Centre Fire]
For the International Day of Violence Against Women (in farsi)
When after raping a fifteen-year-old Iraqi girl named Abir, American soldiers burned her alive, it was as if Atefeh’s aunt’s heart had been set on fire in the small village of Neka in Iran; Atefeh had been fifteen years old when Islamic guards raped and then hanged her.
Demonstration on 09 December 06
Meeting point: Nordmarkt Dortmund, 13:00 deutsch - francais
On 14 April 2006, Dominique Kouamadio, a 23 year-old Congolese, was shot dead by a policeman in Dortmund. The owner of a kiosk had called the police because Dominique was standing in front of his kiosk window with a knife. At the time three police officers arrived by car, the situation was according to their own statements not threatening. Until today, it has not been clarified why the situation escalated: a policeman killed Dominique by two shots, fired directly after each other into his leg and into his heart. The public prosecutor's office in Dortmund opened an investigation against the police officer who fired the mortal shots, but dismissed the case because of supposed self-defence. Self-defence? Despite the fact that all eye witnesses give evidence of a distance of several meters between Dominique and the policeman who shot
On Monday 20th of November a declaration concerning the refugee protests in the Camp in Blankenburg (7 kilometers outside the City) passed the City Council of Oldenburg. In the declaration that is unanîmously (!) supported by all political parties it is said: ”The Gouvernment of Lower Saxony is asked to evaluate intensively the demands the inhabitants of ZAAB Blankenburg have put forward and make proposals for solutions. Most of all, the question of housing is to be discussed and the possibiliy of decentralized lodging should be considered. Also, the bureaucratic Gutschein-system is to be abolished.” Surprisingly, these formulations were even supported by the local CDU-members who are therefore openly opposing their own CDU-gouvernment in the State of Lower Saxony and the wellknown hardliner Minister of Interior Schünemann.
