March 18th, 2012: Another migrant’s corpse was recovered from Evros River. This man was missing for some time and is reportedly dead for several weeks. The percentages of dead and missing refugees — who cross the river (and therefore the country) in order to seek a better life (survival) in […]
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The night of the New Year’s Eve has seen again a lot of different type of protests taking place in Germany against prisons and all forms of detention, as well as against some of those who daily enforce their existence. The traditional demonstrations at local prisons saw an increase in […]
On Saturday, December 3rd, approximately 200 people gathered in Omonia Square to protest ‘against fascism; for the legalization for all immigrants and refugees; for citizenship for all second generation immigrant children’. The demo was called by the Union of Immigrant Workers, the Movement ‘Unite Against Racism and the Fascist Threat’, […]
After numerous solidarity interventions and legal aid, the 12-year-old immigrant Ali Mohammed Rasul who was arrested for scavenging through waste on October 5th and imprisoned in Amygdaleza juvenile detention centre, is finally released and has documents. The next step is family reunification, as the boy’s parents are currently in Germany. […]
Here we highlight some of the most recent attacks against the most vulnerable parts of Greek society. These are only a few of the cases that occur daily in the city of Athens; the birthplace of ‘culture and democracy’, as the travel agents call it. A war has been declared […]
Since Monday, October 24th, 52 people (out of the 65 total in their block), all of them immigrant detainees, have begun a hunger strike in block 10 of the central prison. Their crime: their illegal residency in Cyprus. Their demand: to stop being denied their basic rights which are being […]
On October 5th in the neighbourhood of Dafni, in Athens, 12-year-old Ali Mohammed Rasul was arrested by cops while scavenging through a waste bin. He was taken to a local police station and then was transferred to Amygdaleza juvenile detention centre in Thrakomakedones, northwestern Attica, because he didn’t have papers. […]
On Tuesday evening, October 4th, at around 20.30 (the day before the general strike mobilizations across Greece) strong police forces raided Victoria Square hunting and arresting dozens of immigrants —residents in the neighbourhood. Three police buses, police motorcycles, units of the Group of Crime Prevention and Suppression (OPKE) and a […]
Info about the 48hour general strike in Chile (in English) In the night of August 26th, in Jaime Eyzaguirre neighbourhood of Manuel Gutiérrez Reinoso who was shot dead by police, his relatives and friends held a candle ceremony in the memory of the deceased and marched in the streets of […]
Brief reflections on the uprising of the immigrants in Bari (Italy) and not only Certainly, it’s an expression that we often hear. After the incidents of the last days, or months, it’s time to take it in serious consideration. Indeed, a few days ago (Monday, August 1st) — as already […]
According to the Afghan Refugees Committee, another fascist attack against an immigrant occurred on Tuesday night, August 16th, near Attiki Square (downtown Athens). A gang of seven neo-Nazis attacked a 25-year-old immigrant who was seriously injured and hospitalized. The next day people denounced the fascist attack in Aghios Panteleimonas police […]
yesterday’s emigrants are today’s immigrants On June 9th, 2011, the police forcibly evacuated and destroyed the immigrants’ settlement in Igoumenitsa. Dozens of them were arrested while many were forced to flee to the mainland. Some arrived in our city [Ioannina, northwestern Greece]. Immigrants — that are the most underrated and […]