Tagged: sudan
CALL OUT FOR SOLIDARITY! Court Case for the occupation of the ‘Spirit of Britain’
On Monday 22nd February at 13:30 8 people will stand in court in Boulogne-Sur-Mer facing trial for occupying the ‘Spirit of Britain’ ferry on Saturday 23rd of January. Six of the defendants are people without papers from Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria, all currently living in the jungle. They are charged for ‘breaching the transport code’, which in this instance involves entering and occupying a ferry without authorisation. Standing on trial alongside these six will be two French people with papers. They face the same charges for breaching the transport code, as well as a further charge of facilitating entry to the port and ferry. The maximum sentence for these offences is up to 6 months in prison or a €3,500 fine per person.
The two people with papers have been released on bail whist awaiting trial. The six without papers were held in detention and have since been sent to Longeunesse prison in Saint-Omer. Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the future for the people without papers is not clear. We do not know if they will be released free or if they will be sent to a detention centre, possibly resulting in them being deported back to the war torn countries that they are fleeing from.
This is a call out inviting people to come and show support to those facing trial. We ask for people to come and stand with us in solidarity with those facing oppression and sanctions as a result of resisting the border. We are in the process of organising transport for those without papers in the jungle who wish to be present at the trial, and encourage anyone else who has access to a vehicle to offer the same.
The French government wishes to make an example of these 8 people – fight the border and pay the price. We wish to make a stand against this. We will always be against the border. We will always fight for the right to freedom of movement. Come to the court at Place de la Résistance in Boulogne and stand with us, and with our friends facing trial.
Deux personnes soudanaises ont été expulsées au Soudan
Une personne soudanaise qui était au centre de détention de Coquelles, après avoir été arrêté à Calais, a été transférée ce matin dans un centre de rétention à Paris, puis emmenée à l’aéroport Charles de Gaulle pour être expulsée au Soudan. Et ce, malgré que le tribunal administratif ait annulé le pays de destination inscrit sur son obligation de quitter le territoire français, et que la préfecture se soit acharchée et ait réinscrit le pays, pour s’assurer que l’expulsion ait bien lieue !
Quelques heures après, courant de l’après-midi, c’est une deuxième personne soudanaise qui a été emmenée à l’aéroport pour être à son tour déportée au Soudan. Arrêtée à Calais il y a une semaine, ce monsieur a d’abord été emmené au centre de rétention de Oissel, en normandie, pratique régulière de harcèlement des exilés de Calais qui consiste à les éloigner, puis il été transféré à Paris pour y être expulsé.
Une personne soudanaise en rétention à Oissel est aujourd’hui menaçée d’expulsion, le consul lui a délivré un laissez-passer qui fait qu’il peut être renvoyé au Soudan à n’importe quel moment….
Nous ignorons ce qu’ils se passe dans les autres centre de rétention en ce moment, mais c’est possible que ces pratiques criminelles concernent d’autres personnes.
NOUVELLE ALERTE : RISQUE D’EXPULSIONS VERS LE SOUDAN / / NEW THREATH: RISK OF EVICTION TO SUDAN
Nous avons appris que des exilés soudanais ont été arrêtés vers le campement du fort Nieulay ces derniers jours. Une partie d’entre eux ont été placés en rétention au CRA (Centre de rétention administrative) de Coquelles, à côté de Calais, ; d’autre à Paris et peut être à Lille avec une décision d’expulsion vers le Soudan.
Pour rappel le 15 janvier 2015 la France était de nouveaux condamné par la CEDH pour des tentatives de renvoi au soudan en raison des traitements inhumains et dégradants que risquaient de subir deux personnes en cas de renvoi au Soudan.
De plus en 04 Mars 2015 la comission Tom Lantos du congres des U.S.A condanait la poursuites des violations des Droits de l’Homme au Soudan. (http://tlhrc.house.gov/docs/transcripts/20150304%20Sudan%20Hearing%20Transcript.pdf)
Voir aussi le rapport de human right watch : http://www.hrw.org/africa/sudan
Prenez contact avec Préfet du Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, pour exiger l’arrêt des procédures d’expulsion vers Soudan.
par téléphone : 03.21.21.20.00
par fax : 03.21.55.30.30
sur le formulaire de la préfecture : http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous
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NEW THREATH: RISK OF EVICTION TO SUDAN MAY 2015
France is trying again to deport refugees to sudan. At least one person is actually in the Detention Center in Coquelles, four are in Paris, and there may be more in Lille with an expulsion order to Sudan.
There was a court ruling on the 15th January, 2015 By the ECHR where it was decided that France would not deport to Sudan because it would be to dangerous for the people returning.
On the 4th of March, 2015 TOM LANTOS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION in U.S.A reported that that the Sudanese government was still violating the human rights act. (http://tlhrc.house.gov/docs/transcripts/20150304%20Sudan%20Hearing%20Transcript.pdf)
You can also see the report from Human Right Watch : http://www.hrw.org/africa/sudan
Get in contact with Prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, to demand no deportations to Sudan:
Telephone: 03.21.21.20.00
Fax: 03.21.55.30.30
on the form of the Prefecture: http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous
#2B Black Is Not A Crime
Neighbours on the east side of the new migrant jungle located near the Jules Ferry Day Centre have paid a contracter to dump large amounts of earth along the encampment. The intention of the erected embankment seems to be to block the view of the jungle from the neighbours large county farmhouse and to stop black people walking near their house.
People living in the jungle came out to protest, sitting on the dirt as construction trucks dumped earth dangerously close to spectators. The police stood by to enforce this construction. Since when is it an issue for the police to enforce construction? Not even on the neighbours land ? Or with a building permit ?
Some people told the police the only reason they are building the embankment is because they are black. That if they were white, it would not happen. Immeadiatly after the trucks and the police left, many people began working together to dig through the wall, to reopen an entrance into the camp.
Threat of Deportation: 8 People Released
Todays court case concerning eight person’s detention and deportation to Sudan, the tribunal in Lille decided to stop the procedures of deportation. Later in the afternoon all eight people from the court case were released.
We are of course happy for our friends to be out of prison and without threat of deportation – but we also wish for all other prisoners to be free. Even if these people got released after four days, there are still a lot of people in the detention centre in Coquelle as a consequence of the border regime.
During the court case, both the translation and the information about the right to solicitor to the people threatened with deportation were terrible and confusing as they were not aware of what was being said, and who is their solicitor. At the same time cops from Police Aux Frontier were walking around making jokes and talking about what they were going to have for lunch.
Strength to everybody locked up as a consequence of the border regime – free all prisoners!
NOUVELLE ALERTE : RISQUE D’EXPULSIONS VERS LE SOUDAN / / NEW THREATH: RISK OF EVICTION TO SUDAN
Lundi soir, une quinzaine d’exilés soudanais ont été arrêtés entre le squat Galou et le campement du fort Nieulay. Une partie d’entre eux ont été relâchés dans la nuit, mais huit ont été placés en rétention au CRA (Centre de rétention administrative) de Coquelles, à côté de Calais, avec une décision d’expulsion vers le Soudan.
Ils passeront demain matin à 8h au tribunal administratif de Lille, qui se prononcera sur leur recours contre leur placement en rétention et leur expulsion. La présence de soutiens est souhaitée (Tribunal Administratif, 143 Rue Jacquemars Giélée, 59800 Lille https://goo.gl/maps/STR2Q).
Prenez contact avec Préfet du Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, pour exiger l’arrêt des procédures d’expulsion vers Soudan.
par téléphone : 03.21.21.20.00
par fax : 03.21.55.30.30
sur le formulaire de la préfecture : http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous
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NEW THREATH: RISK OF EVICTION TO SUDAN
Monday night, fifteen Sudanese exiles were arrested between the squat Galou and the camp of Fort Nieulay. Some of them were released in the night, but eight were detained at the ARC (Administrative Detention Centre) in Coquelles, near Calais, with an expulsion order to Sudan.
Tomorrow morning at 8 am they have their courtcase at the Lille administrative court, which will decide on their appeal against their detention and deportation. The presence of support is desired (Administrative Court, 143 Rue Jacquemars Giélée, 59800 Lille https://goo.gl/maps/STR2Q).
Get in contact with Prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, to demand no deportations to Sudan:
Telephone: 03.21.21.20.00
Fax: 03.21.55.30.30
on the form of the Prefecture: http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous
Mass arrest of Sudanese, now threatened with deportation! Act now!
Put pressure on Prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, to release the Sudanese! :
Telephone: 03.21.21.20.00
Fax: 03.21.55.30.30
on the form of the Prefecture: http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous
Thirteen Sudanese were arrested during the night of 28th November and in the following morning and transferred to the Mesnil Amelot detention center near Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport and are being threatened with deportation to Sudan.
This comes a week after Sudanese in Calais held demonstrations in the centre of town to protest against the rape of two hundred women by soldiers of the Sudanese army in North Darfur.
Mass arrests and threats of deportation of Sudanese is a strategy that has been regularly used to send fear into the wider community, with people from Sudan making up a large population of people in Calais. In September there was a similar round up of Sudanese during a period of heavy evictions. And France successfully deported a Sudanese person to Sudan on September 17.
Sudan has seen decades of civil war, systematic persecutions of people, rape, aerial bombardments, destruction of means of living and mass killings at the hands of a brutal dictatorship and militias.
President, Omar al-Bashir, has several arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court out against him for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, yet states including France still continue to threaten and sometimes achieve forced returns of people despite well documented evidence of a real risk of immediate imprisonment, persecution, torture or death.
NO MORE DEPORTATIONS
