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  - Read this post in Français, Nederlands

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 fellow detainees tell us that Mahmoud’s mother had just died in Palestine when he arrived at the detention centre. The rest of his family is still in Palestine: our thoughts are with them.

His fellow detainees are outraged. They have started a hunger strike at the centre and made a banner with his name on it. They tell us, ‘Today it’s Mahmoud, tomorrow it will be someone else. We have to do something, the security guards are laughing at us. We have to do something.’

Every year, detainees report an average of 2-3 deaths in the centres. We think of Tamazi Rasoian in 2023, Baudouin Pandikuziku in 2025, A. in 2024, Semira Adamu in 1998, Gebre Mariam in 2018, and so many others (some of whose names are unfortunately unknown). We also think of all those whose deaths will never be known, kept hidden by the Belgian state.

It is clear that those responsible for Mahmoud’s death are the Belgian state, the Immigration Office and all the institutional actors involved in repressive migration policies. The state that imprisons, expels and kills.
Detention in closed centres is violent. It pushes people to their limits. It murders.

Let us remain mobilised and ready to gather in memory of Mahmoud and all those who have died because of borders and prisons. Let us gather in support of his fellow detainees and the thousands of people locked up every year by Belgium in its centres.

BORDERS KILL
THE BELGIAN STATE KILLS
WE WILL NOT FORGET
WE WILL NOT FORGIVE
DOWN WITH DETENTION CENTRES
FREEDOM FOR ALL

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