Archives mensuelles : September 2017

They are really trapping the Sudanese

29/09/2017 Since the mass arrestations in the Maximilien park and in the North Station, we had a lot of difficulties to get in touch with the hundred people arrested and retained in the closed centre. According to the information we … Continuer la lecture

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RESISTANCE……..and profile of the DRC people deported

RESISTANCE……..and profile of the DRC people deported on the collective flight to Nigeria, Ghana and the DRC Opponents Several are well known opponents to Kabila’s regime and they have been militants for years. They have been retained in closed centres … Continuer la lecture

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ALERT : Group deportation to the DRC, Nigeria, Ghana on 26th September 2017: Update

Update: The collective depootation will take people from Nigeria, Ghana and DRC —————————————————————————————————————— Several DRC retained in the closed centres got notified that they had been registered on a group flight to Kinshasa on 26 September 2017 at 10 a.m … Continuer la lecture

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From Semira Adamu till today, 20 years of resistance to deportations

22 september 2017: Two evenements: —  Let’s make the voice of retainees in closed centres audible     TOGETHER, LET’S OCCUPY THE PUBLIC SPACE AND READ TESTIMONIES OF RETAINEES IN CLOSED CENTRES Friday 22nd September 2017 3.30 p.m. Place de … Continuer la lecture

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Maximilien: Hunger strike at the 127 bis and “Call for air” – Update

Update 17/09/2017: The people who were arrested daily over the last weeks by the police in Maximilien parc, its surroundings and in the North Station are still many to be retained in closed centres. It remains very complicated to spot … Continuer la lecture

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“We don’t want any Calais in Brussels”

Despite the  militarisation of the European borders and the construction of walls and barbed wire, thousands of migrants still want to reach Europe. Since 2015, the politicians have been speaking of “migrants crisis”, of “asylum crisis”, of the management of … Continuer la lecture

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More than 20 Sudanese and Somalis in our closed centres

05/08/2017: Francken discovered two countries he didn’t know: Sudan and Somalia. Since almost a year, migrants – mainly Sudanese and Eritreans, have been sleeping in the Maximilien Parc in Brussels. Associations and volunteers try to provide them with food and … Continuer la lecture

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