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Revolt in Mesnil Amelot’ detention center: “Everyone just wanted to be free”

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,…

By passamontagna 13 August 2022 Off

SCHEDULE OF THE WEEKEND OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST WAR AND BORDERS! – June the 24/25/26th – TURIN

SCHEDULE OF THE WEEKEND OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST WAR AND BORDERS! – June the 24/25/26th – TURIN

Friday Morning: LET’S REAPPROPRIATE SPACES IN THE CITY FOR THE DURATION OF THE MOBILISATION! 12:30am Lunch 3-4:30pm Welcome, presentation of the event and legal point 5-7:30pm Non mixed discussion (without cis men) 8pm Dinner Saturday 9am Breakfast 10am-1pm concurrently: – Surveillance technologies and repressive apparatus in the War on Migrants, Critical whiteness, Climate change and migration.…

By passamontagna 17 June 2022 Off

Niger: riots in the UNHCR centre in Agadez. A UN partner office and police headquarters burnt down. 27 year old Sudanese boy dies in the clashes

Niger: riots in the UNHCR centre in Agadez. A UN partner office and police headquarters burnt down. 27 year old Sudanese boy dies in the clashes

During clashes between refugees and gendarmes, a 27 year old Sudanese man was killed on Wednesday 25 May in the UNHCR centre in Agadez, Niger. Apparently, early in the morning, gendarmes arrived in the camp to identify a person suspected of killing two cows belonging to a neighbouring Nigerian cattle farmer. It is still unclear…

By passamontagna 28 May 2022 Off