Libyan police say they have detained dozens of migrants following a raid
Published by Infomigrants on : 16/08/2022 “Many migrants” were arrested and detained following raids in Tripoli, authorities in western Libya said on Monday, announcing a crackdown on crime. A Libyan militant, however, said the raids were a “propaganda campaign” to cover up the killings of migrants. Authorities in western Libya claimed to have rounded up…
“Even a dog is not treated like that”: refusal of care and obstetrical violence against a prisoner at Mesnil-Amelot detention center (France)
Published on 13/08/2022 – translation from : abaslescra.noblogs We publish here the testimony of a detainee in the Mesnil-Amelot detention centre. She was four months pregnant at the time of her arrest, and tried throughout her detention to resist the physical and psychological violence that the cops inflicted on her to make her comply. She was…
Bosnia repatriates the first two migrants to Pakistan. A “test bench” for EU entry
published in Altraeconomia – article by Luca Rondi, 9 August 2022 On 31 July, with a scheduled flight, the Sarajevo government met the requests of European institutions: the aim is to externalise expulsions as well. And it promises readmission agreements with Afghanistan, Syria and Bangladesh: yet another blow to the right to asylum Bosnia and…
Revolt in Mesnil Amelot’ detention center: “Everyone just wanted to be free”
Translated from – abaslescra.noblogs.org – 10/08/2022 Between Saturday and Sunday (6/7 August), a revolt broke out in Mesnil-Amelot, in the largest administrative detention centre in France. It is the umpteenth rebellion that shakes this prison for undocumented migrants, after the fire of January 2021, the hunger strike of March 2021, the collective escape of July 2021,…
The story of Islam Murad Baloch
We receive and diffuse This is the story of a young man, Islam Murad Baloch. One of the many who crossed the Montgenèvre border. It is the story of his long and difficult journey across the murderous borders and their guards. A story about repression in Balochisan. A story of the violence of the thousand…
European funding to Morocco to stop people, at all costs
by Altraeconomia by Luca Rondi – 1 July 2022 In recent years, the European Union has provided Moroccan police with means, ‘training’ and identification tools. Millionaire supplies, not very transparent, from which those same border guards who on 24 June caused the death of more than 20 people have benefited. Here, too, Frontex plays a…
Val Roya. Another murder by the police, another violence for the border.
Publushed on 19 juin on mars-info.org On 16 June 2022, a man died as a result of a head injury caused by a police shooting. The underlying reason was that there were undocumented people in the vehicle and the driver refused to comply. Police kill, border too On 16 June 2022, a man died as…
BROCHURE ON THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE EUROPEAN BORDERS
There are many people who, for the most diverse reasons, seek to move to live on a piece of land they were not born on. If they are rich, they are ‘expatriates’. If they are poor, they are irregular migrants, ‘clandestine’. In the coming decades alone, the number of people forced to move due to…
Assault at the Morocco-Spain border: at least 23 migrants die trying to enter Melilla
The deaths occurred during a mass crossing attempt of the Spanish North African enclave by some 2,000 people. So far, 23 migrants are reported killed and dozens of migrants and police officers injured in a “stampede” of people trying to cross the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla. Again in Melilla, the mass force tried…
OCCUPIED “ASTANTERIA” FOR THE MOBILIZATION AGAINST WARS AND BORDERS
This morning we occupied the Astanteria in Via Cuneo 32/a Torino for the mobilisation of three days against war and borders. The neighbourhood, the streets around the place chosen to organise this three-day event, is not random. The history of this area is a history created by violence, marked by a low-intensity war on the…