The daily arrests and brutal treatment of ‘undocumented’ migrants in the framework of the Greek police’s mass pogroms under the welcoming name ‘Xenios Zeus’, which include beatings, humiliations and tortures in police vans, in the dungeons of police stations and the notorious ‘detention centres,’ are an integral part of the […]
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On January 18th, 2013, the Évry court sentenced Ibrahim El Louar to two year imprisonment and imposed him a fine of 1,200 euros for damages to cops. He is accused of participation in the escape of five persons from the Palaiseau detention centre for migrants on December 16th, 2012. Ibrahim […]
On December 16th, 2012 five people tried to get away from the Massy-Palaiseau detention centre. Four would make it but the fifth person, Ibrahim, was caught by the police that beat him up. He was taken into custody, held for two days and then brought before a judge, accused of […]
When the year was coming to its end a group of around 20 people went to visit the Metsälä detention center. We showed our support to the people inside – imprisoned because of their origins – by making noise outside the fences. We communicated our message with drums, vuvuzelas, fireworks […]
Last night a group of people went to make noise at the new location of the Schiphol deportation prison (Amsterdam). It is an international tradition on New Year’s Eve to go to the prisons to break the silence and isolation. In the new Schiphol prison ‘De Poort’ over 1,000 people […]
We claim responsibility for the smashing of the branch office of the parastatal company ‘Chrissi Avgi’ on Skenderani street at the dawn of Tuesday 11.12.2012. The specific office-shop, based on and accountable to the state directorate, is the hole in which the fascists felt safe with frequent police presence. It […]
“Persons locked up behind bars stop living, they just survive in prison. Every one of them makes their own mold into which they’re supposed to fit, finding refuge in standardized behaviours and reactions (…) one becomes simply a number, another accusatory brief scattered on an iron bed, in a narrow […]
An anti-prison poster was pasted in many German cities, which reads: New Year’s Eve in front of prisons! Everywhere, from the deportation centres to the penal institutions! Noise demonstrations in front of prisons during the New Year’s Eve are an ongoing tradition at several places in this world to remember […]
November 10th, 2012 We are a group of immigrants, illegal ones, who managed to avoid arrest during the “Xenios Zeus” operations that took place in Patras on the 1st of October. During this operation many of our friends were arrested and are now being held for no reason whatsoever in […]
We hope you can help us spread the word. On September 12th, at 6.30am, Delta occupied social centre was evicted. In the past, this building served as a university residence hall of the Alexandreio Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki, and was occupied since 2007. During the eviction, ten of us […]
After the transfer of nearly four hundred migrants in a military camp of Corinth (about 80 kilometres southwest of Athens) literally in the middle of the night, antiracist/antifascist citizens released the following call for immediate protest and resistance: “The Antiracist Initiative of Corinth denounces the conversion of Corinth military camp […]
Short report we received about migrants’ hunger strike in Lyubimets: Currently 25 people are holding a hunger strike in the migrant detention center in the town of Lyubimets in South-Eastern Bulgaria, close to the Turkish border. The hunger strike was initiated on August 14th by 14 inmates; 11 other joined […]