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.


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