URGENT: Imprisoned refugees on hunger strike in Coquelles detention center
Calais Migrant Solidarity | 20.08.2012 16:56 | Afghanistan | Migration
15 people began a hunger strike today in the Coquelles detention center. Their demands are as follows:
- Fair treatment by PAF prison officers
- An end to racist and religious insults by PAF prison officers
- Access to medical treatment
- Fair treatment by PAF prison officers
- An end to racist and religious insults by PAF prison officers
- Access to medical treatment
15 people began a hunger strike today in the Coquelles detention center. Their demands are as follows:
- Fair treatment by PAF prison officers
- An end to racist and religious insults by PAF prison officers
- Access to medical treatment
The people begin held in the detention center are not criminals, they are people who the French state has deemed illegal - their existence is a crime in the eyes of the state. Complaints of racist treatment have been growing for weeks now. When No Norders activists visited to deliver sugar, they were told by the police that the prisoners had sugar. Upon talking to the prisoners, we established that this was in fact a lie, as it was being denied, along with writing materials and most seriously, medical treatment.
Calais Migrants Solidarity calls on all supporters of free movement to stand in solidarity with the hunger strikers. None are free till all are free.
CMS
No Borders
- Fair treatment by PAF prison officers
- An end to racist and religious insults by PAF prison officers
- Access to medical treatment
The people begin held in the detention center are not criminals, they are people who the French state has deemed illegal - their existence is a crime in the eyes of the state. Complaints of racist treatment have been growing for weeks now. When No Norders activists visited to deliver sugar, they were told by the police that the prisoners had sugar. Upon talking to the prisoners, we established that this was in fact a lie, as it was being denied, along with writing materials and most seriously, medical treatment.
Calais Migrants Solidarity calls on all supporters of free movement to stand in solidarity with the hunger strikers. None are free till all are free.
CMS
No Borders
Calais Migrant Solidarity
e-mail:
calais_solidarity@riseup.net
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Easily fixed
20.08.2012 18:31
Ben
"fixed" mechanical solution failure
20.08.2012 19:34
the issue is that the conditions in Coquelles are so bad that people have decided not to eat until the police cease degrading thier dignity. the conditions in coquelles are partially caused because the UK government is funding this oppression by the french government to stop people travelling to the uk.
even without this, people should have the right to travel where ever they please. migrations and settlement has been an integral part of human history. never before has such a total border been erected and enforced, and the ramifications on our culture, ideology and mentality is massive. none are free until all are free
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The history of migration control
21.08.2012 14:15
In fact European control of migration has been an issue since the 14th Century. The Avignon papacy transferred the seat of the Popes from Italy to France and stopped all Catholic migration between the countries as Italy was losing thousands of farm workers per day. In 1310 France prevented all passage out of the country for women until proof of marriage was shown.
In 1337 the Hundreds Years War began and Edward III stopped all travel between France, Netherlands and England.
In 1397 the Kalmar Union was established allowing free passage between Norway, Sweden and Denmark before that a passport was required and the number of visits restricted. Indeed passports go back much further, One of the earliest known references is found in the Hebrew Bible. In 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter "to the governors beyond the river" requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands. Without such a letter no Persian was allowed to leave the kingdom.
In the medieval Islamic Caliphate, a passport called a bara'a was issued. Only citizens who paid their zakah (for Muslims) or jizya (for Dhimmis) taxes were permitted to travel to different regions of the Caliphate, thus the bara'a receipt was a traveller's basic passport.
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