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#Athens: Complaint filed by an anti-racist organization

Ali Suari is a 20 year-old refugee from Guinea. He left his country after being subjected to horrific torture practices and an attempt to have him murdered, experiences which still make him suffer from a sleep disorder. He managed to get to Athens in October last year, after having lived in the camp in Moria, on Lesbos, for two years.

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#Laval #Canada: Against borders, against prisons. Stop the Laval migrant prison

Canada: In 2016 the federal government announced the construction of a new migrant detention center in Laval. This prison, which is anticipated to hold up to 158 undocumented migrants, is intended to be built on Correctional Service of Canada grounds, right beside Leclerc prison, and is slated to open in 2021.

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Report on Rights Violations and Resistance in #Lesvos

In the months since our (Legal Centre Lebos) last update on rights violations and resistance in Lesvos, our advocacy and campaigning resources were almost exclusively focused on the two trials for the Moria 35 and Moria 10 that took place in Chios in late April and early May 2018.

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Urgent: Refugees in #Sarajevo need Support

In Sarajevo, mostly locals are helping to all those who are arriving daily. Every kind of help is needed medical, food, clothes, shoes…Volunteers are needed too, including doctors or nurses. If you can come to Bosnia, please get in touch with Are You Syrious.

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Autonomous Action Radio: F*ck the Regimes, Tear Down the Borders

In this show Subversion #1312 ‘travel’ to Greece and Iran where people are suffering because of their political situation and borders. With a contribution by Enough is Enough’s Riot Turtle from Lesvos.

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Image: Moria refugee camp on Lesvos island, Greece.

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#Australia: Hunger strike over Detention Visit Restrictions Continues

Around 160 detainees at Villawood in Sydney are continuing their hunger strike – now in its fourth day. (Thursday, 18 Jan), over the draconian restrictions to visiting.

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Image: Villawood detention center in Sydney. Image by Insurrection News.

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#URGENT Call For Global Actions at Australian Embassies on Nov 7th in Solidarity with Refugees on #Manus

RISE ex-detainees urgently requests protests and other actions to be held next Tuesday, 7th November 2017 on Melbourne Cup day, a high profile international event, to bring to the world’s attention the escalating crisis faced by detainees held hostage by the Australian government on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. We also ask our supporters to carry out protests and actions internationally on the day at Australian embassies across the world to show your solidarity with our community and #SanctionAustralia for their crimes against humanity.

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Pushback From #Greece to #Turkey Documented on Camera

The Greek mainstream newspaper Ef.Syn published an article on a pushback from Greece to Turkey based on information by the Watch the Med Alarm.

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Debate: What to do When Volunteers Become Lackeys of Authorities?

An interesting article about working with refugees on the Balkan route. Working for authorities or working with refugees.. that’s an important difference.

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#Roeszke11 Second Level Court Verdict: Show Trial in #Szeged, #Hungary

On February 28th 2017 the second level court hearing against ten of the Röszke 11 – all but Ahmed H., who was sentenced to ten years of prison in a separate trial – was held in Szeged. The only person remaining in Hungarian custody and therefore present at the court hearing was Yamen A. The other nine people have left Hungary some month ago and claimed asylum in other European countries. Albeit two of them left Europe under the “voluntary return” act due to the immense pressure imposed on them and the threat to deport them back to Hungary under the Dublin Regulation.

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