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Eritrean detainee on hunger strike in Greece facing deportation to Eritrea

Article 13 | 16.03.2014 21:22 | Policing | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Detainees of B wing Larisa prison inform of their solidarity to the fellow detainee Mohamad Hamid from ERITREA, who has been held for DEPORTATION for 10 months (from end of criminal sentence) and who is ON HUNGER STRIKE SEEKING RECOGNITION OF POLITICAL ASYLUM.

Detainees of B wing Larisa prison inform of their solidarity to the fellow detainee Mohamad Hamid from ERITREA, who has been held for DEPORTATION for 10 months (from end of criminal sentence) and who is ON HUNGER STRIKE SEEKING RECOGNITION OF POLITICAL ASYLUM.

They add that from Wednesday 5 March 2014,fellow detainee Mohamad Hamid is on HUNGER STRIKE .. after his supposed release date of 8 May 2013 and is held now for 10 months on the assumption that he cant be released because he will be deported to Eritrea, and as Eritrea has no embassy in Greece there can be no facilitated legal proceedings to enable his deportation!
It must be noted that the HUNGER_STRIKER IS IN POOR HEALTH with many problems. He has already SUBMITTED APPLICATION AGAINST DEPORTATION ORDER AND ASKED FOR ASYLUM WHICH WAS REFUSED.

There follows text from his co-detainees which is not rewritten here:

source: statement of detainees on B wing Larissa prison
 https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1519088

>but to say:
>the highest recognition rate (for asylum) concerns: ... Eritreans (83,3%)
 http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2013/12/05/statistics-new-asylum-service-greece-2013/

>It is believed that any deportation attempt, and costs of holding him are financed by the European Union, with possible additional funding provided by EEA grants program of Iceland Norway Liectenstein, countries unaffiliated byu immigration networks (EU).
 http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/financing/fundings/migration-asylum-borders/return-fund/index_en.htm
eeagrants-iomathens-soam.gr/χρήσιμοι-σύνδεσμοι/?lang=en
 http://eeagrants.org/News/2013/Voluntary-return-for-850-irregular-migrants

> There are countries people return to (Afghanistan, Syria) and there are countries people escape FROM (North Korea, Eritrea)

> Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (proposed):
"Everyone has the right to leave any country including his own, to live, work, mix and marry, and to return to his country or to move on to any other country."

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