Last week on December 16, in an act of civil disobedience, over 150 asylum seekers…
Tag: Asylum seekers
The death of Oury Jalloh
One of Germany’s most enigmatic post-war lawsuits will have to be reviewed. This post is both a chronology of what is sufficiently proven and a list of the numerous crudities that remain. What is can’t be disputed can be summed up in one sentence: On 7 January 2005, Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, burned to death in a police cell in the city of Dessau. The narrative about these events that has dominated public dialogue in Germany ever since has followed the official version of events as they were uttered on the very same day by the police. It goes like this:
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms
In the last few days more details have come to light about Israel’s operation to…
How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe
“Bon voyage” (“Have a nice trip”), a Swiss animated short movie by Fabio Friedli, seeks…
African Asylum Seekers in Israel
Guest Post by Anonymous* If you follow current headlines, you may have noticed a seemingly…