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Movement for the Human Rights Solidarity to the Refugees-Samos

(press release from http://no-racism.net )
For one more time on Thursday 1st of July 2010 50 refugees where transported for the detention center of Samos to be deported. They where transferred to the center of Aspropyrgos without having been informed that they will be transferred or the reasons without Lawyers and without translators. For one more time the police the coast guard and frontex coordinate their actions and transferred illegaly also a minor of 15 years with health problems.

More than 13800 Deaths - the Fatal Realities of 'Fortress Europe'

Every year on the International Refugee Day on 20th of June, UNITED presents a List of documented refugee deaths through 'Fortress Europe'. UNITED media release:

Demonstration after racist killing in Warsaw - solidarity begins

On Monday, May 24thin Warsaw a spontaneous anti-racist demonstration took place as a reaction to the brutal racist murder committed by the police on May 23rd of 2010.

Around 150 activists and migrants gathered during the protest initiated by Zwi?zek Syndykalistów Polskich (The Association of Polish Syndycalists). After a few short speeches delivered near the Stadium bus station the gathering changed into a demonstration, and everybody went along Grochowska street (briefly blocking it) to the police station on Grenadierów street, where - according to unclear police statements - the persons arrested after Sunday's killing where being held.

Anti-Frontex Conference in Warsaw

As a small act of resistance against an EU conference on border control and the "European Day of the Border Guard" a counter- conference and protest at the location of the EU conference will take place in Warshaw.

On May 24, 2010, corporations and EU bureaucrats will attend a conference and exhibition on "Surveillance Technology for Border Control" hosted by the EU migrant-hunting agency, Frontex. May 25, the "European Day of the Border Guard" and the 5th anniversary of Frontex, a conference to be attended by key European decision-makers entitled "The Future of Border Management in Europe including the Role of Frontex" will also take place. A small act of resistance - a counter-conference and protest at the location of the conference.

"In The Most Free State of the World"

This Leaflet was found in some streets of Paris in March 2010. It talks about solidarity with the accused of the fire in Vincennes and the repression of the state:

Since 1945, they want us to believe that the most serene freedom has arisen in our lifetime; now that housewives have access to all the best household appliances, now that almost everyone has the right to vote, now that "freedom" of speech is guaranteed by the democratic institutions, now that we are left with the listing of false choices- between exploiting or being exploited for nothing at all, and without trying to understand why, threatened to be quashed. Our anxiety and our thirst for liberty do not falter, though that is what it's all about when the State parrots out its ideas of freedom, democratic and industrial progress.

Italy: Rome immigration prison set on fire by detainees

«Total chaos!» At midnight on 30th March 2010, this text message was sent from one of the detainees inside Ponte Galeria, the immigration prison in Rome, Italy.

An hour prior to the text, a riot inside the detention centre had started: mattresses were burnt and two huge fires reached the infirmary. Some of the detainees were on the roof, while others broke three or four doors and reached the outer fence. The detention centre was soon full of riot police. Gunshots were heard around 1.20am.

There riot has allegedly caused EUR 200,000 worth of damage; a hydraulic and electric system was put out of order; four people escaped and an unknown number of detainees were moved to other detention centres, while 17 were arrested. They are due in court on 31st March.

Germany: Young refugee commits suicide in deportation centre

The suicide of a Georgian refugee in a Hamburg deportation centre graphically expresses the contempt for human life on the part of the city's Senate - a coalition of the free-market Free Democratic Party and the Greens.

David M., a citizen from Georgia, hanged himself in his cell on March 7, 2010. He had been taken to the city's deportation centre although he had informed the authorities in his application for asylum that he was just 17 years old. The arrest of a juvenile in Germany merely because he lacks proper papers is a breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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