On wednesday, one day after the brief report attached, the protesting refugees have been evicted and arrested again. The police tried to blackmail them: they should sign not to approach the EU delegation office again, otherwise they keep imprisoned. But the group refused to sign and afterwards they were split up by police into two or three persons and were brought to different far areas to destroy the collective.But the first of these rejected asylum seekers are already back again and insist on their right to protest at this place of EU responsibility. But at least three persons are still imprisoned in "Bou-Choucha" (south Tunesia) and the group demands their immediate Release.
Please support by sending faxes and Emails to the EU delegation Office (see the datas below) to support this group of asylumseekers!Pls focus on the two following demands:Immediate release of the three refugees imprisoned in Bou-Choucha!Listen to the rejected asylumseekers!
EU Delegation Office TunisPhone: 00216-71960330Fax: 00216- 71960302
Best greetings,hagen
"We are rejected asylum seekers, abandoned in Choucha camp since 2011. We demand durable solution."Thats the text on a banner in front of the building of the EU-delegation in Tunis (see the picture below). The action of the refugee-group with about 15 persons started as permanent protest in February 2014, but after one week all of them have been arrested and put into detention. No reason was given to them for this arrest, for 4 weeks the refugees were kept imprisoned and afterwards transported back against their will to Choucha in a bus escorted by police. But the refugee group refused to stay invisible in the desert and returned to Tunis and are back again since Sunday (16.3.2014) in front of the EU office to continue the Sit-in protest. They insist in negotations with EU representatives about their onliest durable solution: they clearly demand their immediate transfer to any effective asylum system, but this cannot be in Tunesia!Greetings from Tunis,hagen
"We are rejected asylum seekers, abandoned in Choucha camp since 2011. We demand durable solution."
Thats the text on a banner in front of the building of the EU-delegation in Tunis (see the picture below). The action of the refugee-group with about 15 persons started as permanent protest in February 2014, but after one week all of them have been arrested and put into detention. No reason was given to them for this arrest, for 4 weeks the refugees were kept imprisoned and afterwards transported back against their will to Choucha in a bus escorted by police.
But the refugee group refused to stay invisible in the desert and returned to Tunis and are back again since Sunday (16.3.2014) in front of the EU office to continue the Sit-in protest. They insist in negotations with EU representatives about their onliest durable solution: they clearly demand their immediate transfer to any effective asylum system, but this cannot be in Tunesia!
Greetings from Tunis,
hagen