Archives mensuelles : October 2025

Massive protest at 127bis on the evening of 14 October 2025

Publié le October 17, 2025 par Getting the Voice Out

On Tuesday 14 October, as 180,000 people took to the streets of Brussels to protest against Arizona, a wing of the 127bis detention centre began to revolt. From early in the morning, detainees noticed a heavy police presence around the … Continuer la lecture →

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Gebre Mariam – Never forgive, never forget (9 October 2018). Seven years since a man committed suicide at the detention center in Vottem

Publié le October 9, 2025 par Getting the Voice Out

Seven years ago this very same day, on 9 October 2018, we learned of the death of Gebre Mariam, a 36-year-old young man from Eritrea, who had been detained for four months at the Vottem detention centre (Liège). The memory … Continuer la lecture →

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After the death of a comrade, a friend, a fellow prisoner, repression intensifies in the centres

Publié le October 8, 2025 par Getting the Voice Out

Since Mahmoud’s death yesterday at the 127bis closed centre (near Zaventem), five of his comrades have been put in solitary confinement and forcibly transferred to three different centres: two in Bruges, two in Vottem (Liège), and one in Caricole (also … Continuer la lecture →

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Suicide of a Palestinian man last night at the 127bis detention centre – Rest in power Mahmoud Ezzat Farag Allah

Publié le October 7, 2025 par Getting the Voice Out

The detainees at 127bis alerted us this morning that a man had committed suicide during the night at the centre. The man was Mahmoud Ezzat Farag Allah, a Palestinian who had been detained at the centre for three months.  His … Continuer la lecture →

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