A-Infos (en) Italy, Galatea FAI: Migrant issue: Mohammed on hunger strike + Situation from the Polish-Belarusian border - from the "No Borders Team" (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Mohammed, a 26-year-old Iraqi, has been on hunger strike for more than a week at 
the Surveillance Center for Foreigners in Przemysl. ---- "Freedom or death!" 
wrote about his motivations. ---- This is his request. Tomorrow[December 25, 
2022]he will probably be moved to solitary confinement. ---- Mohammed has been in 
detention for seventeen months. Recently the court, at the request of the border 
guard, extended his sentence by another month.[Mohammed]was subjected to violence 
in his home country, then on the Lithuanian border, where he was pushed back by 
Polish law enforcement. Mohammed is still imprisoned after being taken in August 
2021 ---- We invite you to write a letter to the border guard commander in charge 
of the prison and ask for justice for Mohammed (ID219): 
komendant.biosg@strazgraniczna.pl or call them at +48 16 673 20 00
Mohammad has received two refusals for his refugee status. In such situations, 
the border guard wants to effectively ensure the fulfillment of the obligation to 
return, for example by deporting the person.
In the case of Iraq however, this is impossible because the country does not 
accept forced deportations. So what is the point of further detaining Mohammed 
and other Iraqi people in the supervised prison centers for foreigners in 
Przemysl and Lesznowola?
It appears that this is violence in its purest form, violation of fundamental 
rights and torture, although irregular border crossing is not a crime, just a 
misdemeanor. The punishment of many months in prison is inadequate and 
incompatible with the standards of a human rights-based Europe. It is also worth 
noting that Iraqi people are a particularly discriminated group in Poland and 
subject to excessive detention lasting more than a year.
No more detentions!
Freedom for Mohammed and all * prisoners *!

- Yet another death at the border

On December 28, we received information about another border victim.
It appears that a 30-year-old woman from Syria died on December 27th.
We will never fully know the circumstances of her death, because like all people 
who come to the borders of the European Union, she was an instrument in the 
propaganda war of the states, and even now she is being used in this sense.
The Belarusian services have already produced a propaganda video for their 
benefit, the Polish services are shrugging off responsibility by writing that 
they had informed the Belarusian side about a person who died at the border.
Meanwhile, Belarusians and Poles have been bouncing sick and weak people, women, 
men and children across the border for several months. They throw them into 
frozen rivers, beat defenseless people and destroy their cell phones, which are 
often the only way out of the forest.
In doing so, both sides have led to the deaths of dozens of people, hundreds of 
people missing or sustained permanent damage to health, thousands of people left 
traumatized by having to fight for their lives as they were thrown through the 
barbed wire most and over and over.
We will never know the details of the deaths of many of the people who lost their 
lives at the border.
But we know the truth about their fate: they were killed by Belarusian and Polish 
officials, by the racist policies of the European Union and by warlords from 
neighboring countries. The European Union has taught[these countries]how to 
use[migrant people]as a means of pressure, paying them for years to protect their 
borders and taking advantage of the fact that human rights are not respected in 
these countries.
We will not forget the victims of borders. Nor will we forget who killed them.

-Update on Mohammed
Yesterday[January 2]Mohammed, on hunger strike for 21 days, was transferred to 
solitary confinement in the Supervised Center for Foreigners in Przemysl.
Four Iraqi people are on hunger strike in SOC in Lesznowola. They fight for their 
dignity, their freedom and their lives. Let's show them that they are not alone 
in this fight.
In Mohammaed's case, he calls the Bieszczady Border Guard unit and asks about his 
health and when he will be released from the centre.
Phone +48 16 673 20 00

-More hunger strikes and pickets outside SOC

Today, January 7, is another day of hunger strike in the Polish detention center 
in Lesznowola, where four Iraqi people have been refusing food for 5 days.
Mohammed, a prisoner in Przemysl, has been on hunger strike for twenty days. He 
broke off[the strike]when the border guards put him in solitary confinement.

These people, like those before them, use this form of protest to draw attention 
to the inhuman conditions in which they are held, the lack of information on 
their legal cases, the impossibility of knowing the length of their stay in the 
so-called for foreigners (in Polish, SOC).
Some of them have been there for 17 months...
Activists who have long fought for the rights and freedom of migrant people 
protested outside both[detention]centers today. There were spontaneous 
demonstrations of solidarity in front of the SOC in Przemysl and the closed 
center in Lesznowola
Solidarity is our weapon; the following is the content of the speech a few hours 
ago in Przemysl and the response behind the walls of the detention center.
"When we were * here last time we promised to return. And here we are.
Another person imprisoned and held in the camp and is on hunger strike. For some, 
this might seem like a drastic or incomprehensible decision. But under these 
conditions - conditions of isolation, confusion, uncertainty about the future, 
aggression and violence by border guards - this is the only way.
And even if it doesn't produce immediate results, it shows that people are not 
passive and that they use whatever means of resistance they have left.
We are here for the people on hunger strike; for those who are struggling; for 
those who are losing strength; for those who have tried to commit suicide; for 
those who support each other; for those who oppose the guards; for those in 
detention and solitary confinement; for those who come from Iraq, Syria, India, 
Congo or Tajikistan. We are here for everyone *, because no one should have to 
stay one more day in this center that looks like a prison, never again!
No more detention centres, no more borders, freedom of movement for all*!"

-Protests on January 7 in front of the center for foreigners in Lesznowola, Poland

"We need you, activists, to tell about us in the media. We come from Afghanistan, 
Iraq, Syria. We just want peace for everyone. (...) We just want to have a good 
life. We want freedom!"
It is an excerpt from the appeal of one of the people behind the walls of the 
closed center of Lesznowola, heard on January 7, when in solidarity with all the 
detained and hunger strikers, activists organized a demonstration outside from 
the structure.
Even before the demonstration one of the strikers had to be hospitalized and last 
night (8 January, ndt) another lost consciousness. The guards didn't seem to care 
and told him to only drink water.... However, the activists called an ambulance 
twice, which the guards refused to let in, and one of the callers was fined for 
unjustified duty call.
At two in the morning today (January 9, ndt) all the strikers were taken to 
solitary confinement.
The Polish Border Guard is obviously taking revenge on the protesters; it is also 
possible that they will move them to another SOC. There are also well-founded 
fears that they will withhold visits to supporters as an additional form of 
punishment.
All this shows how inhumane and out of control centers for Polish foreigners are; 
but we will not stop supporting those who are unjustly imprisoned.
Solidarity is still our weapon!

https://gruppoanarchicogalatea.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/10/questione-migranti-situazione-dal-confine-polacco-bielorusso-1/
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