Category: Nouvelles des centres

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 ‘Worse than a prison‘: a visitor’s testimony at Bruges’ closed centre 

Publié le January 24, 2025 par Martine

24 January We bring here the testimony of a visitor who recently visited the Bruges closed centre and tells us about the deplorable conditions of detention, the lack of privacy, and the tense atmosphere. She also reports to us that … Continuer la lecture →

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The disturbing silence of a man in a detention centre

Publié le November 6, 2024 par Martine

6 November 2024 For about 22 days, we lost contact with M., a detainee that had just started a hunger strike in protest to his detention. His phone seems to have been confiscated and neither his family nor his lawyer … Continuer la lecture →

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Suicide at the 127bis detention centre: the inmates alert us in shock

Publié le March 11, 2024 par Martine

  The inmates of the 127bis detention centre (in Steenokkerzeel, close to Zaventem airport) have informed us that a man in his thirties, Mr A., took his own life on Saturday 9 March 2024. The man was of Ethiopian origin … Continuer la lecture →

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Mediapart makes revelations about Tamazi’s death in the Merkplas detention centre 

Publié le July 18, 2023 par Martine

  https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/160723/tamazi-mort-en-retention-le-combat-pour-la-verite-d-une-famille-de-refugies On 15 of February this year, Tamazi, a man of Georgian origin, died in the Merksplas detention centre. At the time, Getting the Voice Out reported on this tragedy, which raised many questions, even though the man had … Continuer la lecture →

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Death at Merksplas closed centre after hunger strike – 15/02/2023

Publié le February 15, 2023 par admin

Death at Merksplas closed centre after hunger strike – 15/02/2023   This morning,February 15, 2023, we received several calls from detainees informing us of the death of a person at the Merkplas detention centre. This 40 year old Georgian man … Continuer la lecture →

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Audiotestimony : Twenty five days of hunger strike: “In Brussels, where are the human rights? “06/02/2023 Update

Publié le February 8, 2023 par Martine

Update : Free on 09/02/2023 He is 44 years old. Originally from Tunisia, he has been living in Belgium for 12 years. On 13 December he was placed in a detention centre following a police check in Stalingrad. He had built … Continuer la lecture →

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Escape from the Caricole detention centre in Steenokkerzeel

Publié le October 5, 2022 par Martine

Five inmates escaped from the detention centre on 04/10/2022 The Caricole centre is one of the detention centres set up by the Belgian state. Its function is to detain people arrested at airports and borders. These include people who were visiting … Continuer la lecture →

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HELP

Publié le September 25, 2022 par Martine

Hello everyone,As you know, GVO fights against detention centres by bringing out the testimonies of detainees and by preventing the deportations .Thanks to the contacts with the detainees and by bringing out the testimonies, we can highlight the existence of … Continuer la lecture →

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Arrestaties en deportaties aan de lopende band – 02/08/2022

Publié le August 5, 2022 par admin

  The closed centres continue to fill up.    They are arrested in the street, on public transport, in airports, at home, at the Foreigners Office, in open centres. Sometimes they are also transferred directly from a prison.     … Continuer la lecture →

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Mass deportations 20/01/2022 and Covid in closed centre 20/01/2022

Publié le January 23, 2022 par admin

Mass deportations 20/01/2022 Many detainees in closed centres are or will be deported these days, mainly to sub-Saharan Africa. Most of them are people who have been arrested at the airport and denied asylum. They are desperate and tell us … Continuer la lecture →

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VIDEO 2022 : Solidarity action in Coquelles (Calais)

Publié le January 5, 2022 par Martine

On Sunday, January 2, 2022, people decided to start the year with an action in support of the prisoners of the Administrative Detention Center (CRA) of Coquelles, near Calais. They went there and made noise and shouted slogans for the … Continuer la lecture →

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Testimony forced deportation :” How could Belgium be so mean? Or maybe it was an individual or governmental wickedness ». 

Publié le July 1, 2021 par Martine

  After our article about Outrageous practices at the closed centre 127 bis in Steenokkerzeel.https://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/outrageous-practices-at-the-closed-centre-127-bis-in-steenokkerzeel-27-     Testimony :      Shortly after being forcibly deported to Nigeria, a former detainee of 127bis wanted to share with one of our activists the … Continuer la lecture →

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February 2021 – Continuation of double penalties and newcomers on their way!

Publié le February 10, 2021 par Martine

Since our last publication about the situation ( here), nothing new for the persons concerned with ‘double penalties’. They are the same ‘double penalties’ who are waiting, but they no longer know what they are waiting for. They are being … Continuer la lecture →

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About the eagerness of civil servants at Brussels airport

Publié le March 3, 2016 par admin

02/03/2016 We get a lot of phone calls from the Belgian closed centres about arrests at the airport. Among the people arrested, a lot have documents in France, Italy, Belgium, the US and they were transiting through Belgium with a … Continuer la lecture →

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Demonstration of the undocumented in front on March 1st 2015

Publié le March 12, 2015 par admin

Call : http://mrax.be/wp/invitation-presse-nous-en-avons-assez-des-centres-fermes-marche-du-1er-mars-2015/ They are around a hundred to walk 14 km to the closed centre in order to protest againt the imprisonment of some of their friends in the closed centres. The call had been launched by MRAX and … Continuer la lecture →

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25 years imprisonment, 4 months in a closed centre: about the “ADMINISTRATIVE REASONS” of the Foreigners Office…

Publié le January 6, 2015 par admin

After 25 years imprisonment, on September 7th 2014, he is brought to the secured wing of the Vottem closed centre in view of his deportation http://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/please-translate-in-en_uk-de-gevangenis-in-de-gevangenis-in-vottem-de-beveiligde-vleugel/ He is outraged at this new imprisonment and writes to us http://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/guantanamo-bis-lettre-dun-detenu-du-centre-ferme-de-vottem-13092014/ On October … Continuer la lecture →

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How the Foreigners Office generates orphans… Did you say respect for the rights of the child?

Publié le December 5, 2014 par admin

She was already doing return trips between Algiers and Brussels for several months with a visa valid for two years, without any problem. Her two daughters were going to school in Brussels. One day, when back to Brussels airport, a … Continuer la lecture →

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About ‘disorder’ in closed centres 12/11/2014

Publié le November 12, 2014 par admin

Detainees often tell us that they introduce asylum requests in closed centres and that the social assistance of the centre doesn’t send these requests to the Foreigners Office. They are therefore not being considered. One of them even got deported … Continuer la lecture →

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How Maggie creates her figures and so inflates her popularity within a manipulated electorate

Publié le January 7, 2014 par Martine

O1/O1/2014 Preamble : The detainees currently provide us with very little information on the situation in the closed centres (detention centres)  it is only once released or deported that tongues are loosened and that they give us the information they … Continuer la lecture →

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09/06/2012 : News from the centres – it happened near you

Publié le June 11, 2012 par Martine

  It becomes tricky to make a list of the phone calls we get every day from the closed centres. Here are a few elements and questions from the interviews made in the closed centres on the Belgian way to … Continuer la lecture →

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