Reza Memar Bashee, an activist of the refugee community Gerstungen and his family were deported from Gerstungen to Holland.
In the night from Monday, 25th Oct. to Tuesday 26th Oct. around 3.30h , Reza Memar Bashee from Iran, his wife and his two children were taken away from the asylum camp Gerstungen, Wartburgkreis by the police. Only at this moment, the family were informed that they were going to be deported to Holland and that they had only half an hour to pack their things. Neither a lawyer nor any relatives or supporters could be involved.
After that, Reza phoned only once from the airport prison of a city in Nordrhein-Westfalen, supposedly Dortmund. It is only known that they were to be taken to Holland. His mobile is off. It is assumed that the family is in deportation prison in Holland.
The Family of Reza Meamarbash had lived in the refugee isolation camp in Gerstungen for nine months before their forceful disappearance by the deportation police without any notice from the deportation authorities.
We fear that his situation might get worse without any protection and that in case of deportation to Iran he might be persecuted.
For the freedom of speech Reza was deported from Gerstungen, for his love for harmony and for his engagement for a better situation in the heim and the refugee community.
Reza Meamarbash became active in the voice on 16th of May 2010 during the Thueringen refugee preparation meeting in Erfurt for the Caravan-Festival “Unite Against Colonial Injustice”. He joined the initiative of the Refugee Community in the Gerstungen isolation camp to demand normal housing for the refugees from the camp and the closure of the camp that isolates the refugees without any perspective.
He and his family joined with other refugees to organize several meetings and discussions and out the situation in the heim which have contributed to the public pressure through the media and through The Voice's documentation of the isolation camp.
He supported the first report by the Caravan Festival delegation to Gerstungen and Gangloffsömmern in May 2010 as well as the final station of the Lager Tour in Thüringen with a stop in Gerstungen this summer.
He was one of the protagonists of the first video report of the Voice Jena about the heim with other refugees in Gerstungen camp. You can watch him as he presents the situation in the shower and toilets for refugees in the cellar of the house.
The Family joined to protest the celebration of the”Intercultural week” by the minister for internal affairs on the 25th of September 2010 in Bad Salzungen and presented the situation in Gerstungen to all the participants in the conference with high ovation of the public.
Since the production of the video documentation in August the family have participated the weekly initiatives of the refugee community documentations with delegation of The VOICE and other visitors from Thüringen, Hamburg and Berlin to the heim, including activists and journalists.
We are calling on all activists and supporters that the deportation of Reza is very connected to his active engagement to inform the public through the documentation of the inhumane situation in the refugee camp. His deportation is also part of the normal fear to intimidate self organization of the refugee community and the their protest against the inhuman situation in Gerstungen.
The Gerstungen authority was under pressure to stop the refugees from speaking - by serving “hausverbot” and by the control and intimidation of visitors without legal rights to justify the abuses.
His deportation took place before the rumored minister meeting which may take this week.
Reza informed us last Friday that since we published his video the heimleiter had mobbed him and told him to go back to his country: She threatened him that he would be punished for all he made public about the heim. We told him to have regular contact with his lawyer and we assured him to support him politically. Now he has been deported from his community.
We protest the mean deportation of the family of our activist Reza and protest the intimidation threats against the refugees' fight for their freedom!
We need your support!
We need all support to express our solidarity to him and his family and the refugee community in Gerstungen that we stand by them.
Our Solidarity is for the emancipation of our empowerment for human dignity and justice for all those without for those rights in Germany
Send letters of solidarity to the refugee community in Gerstungen and protest letter to the Landratsamt.
Contact address in the heim in Gerstungen:
Address for protest letter
C/o: Nassan Hussen
Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Gerstungen, Am Berg 1,
99834 Gerstungen
Tel.: (Handy) 0049 (0) 15226659495
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Protestbriefe an das Landratsamt.
Landratsamt Wartburgkreis
Wartburgkreis-Landrat Reinhard Krebs.
Erzberger Allee 14
36433 Bad Salzungen
Email.: landrat@warburgkreis
Telefon: 03695 615101
Telefax: 03695 615199
The struggle against isolation camps continues!
The inhuman treatments of those living in the heim and the controls of the refugees' visitors mainly express the hypocrisies of the law and order assimilation for integration without equal rights.
After the Spiegel online report: "Ich lebe nicht in Deutschland, sondern im Lager" by Annette Langer in 15th of October 2010 and earlier helpful reports in Junge Welt by Gitta Düpperthal the authorities remain under the pressure to manipulate the media and to deny and intimidate the journalists by their selective control of information about the Gerstungen heim. We know that they are pressured to isolate themselves from the interest of the public and to avoid their responsibilities including the contradictions in reports and public relation acts of the authority of the discrict of Gerstungen; Rita Specht (19.10.10 / TLZ) was refused the information on the contractor of the heim and the cost of reparation but they forgot they gave out the same information before the public pressure.
They cannot hide for too long because we keep our eyes on them and they never will find anywhere to hide. It is just enough to keep reporting on situation of the camp and express our solidarity, to work with refugees in the camp and to encourage regular reports on Gerstungen by the activists and media presentation to confront the authorities and to show them that we are consistent to continue our task that the camp must be closed immediately. We speak about what we know and see about the camp.
Please have fun to join us and make the German refugee isolation camp of the past. Your consistent position can make so much difference. We did it before and we can always do much more again, to close the isolation camps.
We unite against isolation camps, deportation and restriction of refugee movement.
After the Caravan Festival The VOICE Jena has been engaged in planning a long time documentation of refugee heims and alternative media for the communities. We want to work on four old isolation/ghetto camps in Thüringen (Gangloffsömmern, Gerstungen, Zehla-Mehlis and Breitenworbis).
Print materials, online and media projects will be prepared, visits in the heims and workshops will be organized on a nationwide level.
Our Right to existence in dignity is all that we are for with high expectation without regret!
Solidarity is the only weapon that we need to break the silence isolation and the fear and to overcome the intimidation and repression and gain freedom. Presence in dignity is our ultimate value.
Support the struggle of the refugees by your personal engagement, by your solidarity, your visits, by your protest and your testimony.
Flüchtlingsisolationslager in Gerstungen
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