English

Refugees in Europe are faced with strong fear of deportation. The major cause of this trauma has being identified to emanate from the lack of practical information on the asylum procedure and from Racist forms of refugee persecution

Having identified this lapses, Flüchtlinge für Flüchtlinge (A Community initiative of The VOICE Refugee Forum) has design a strategy to continuously coordinate anti-deportation workshops for refugees in different regions.

Texts and Speeches in English and German:

On Friday, December 16, 2011, Ljuljeta Ademaj from Emden arrived at the registry office in Freiburg to marry her husband to be. Unfortunately the ceremony never took place. Ljuljeta Ademaj was arrested and taken to Schwäbisch Gemünd in handcuffs. On January 12, 2012 she was deported from Baden Airport, organized by the Karlsruhe Regional Council after living in Germany for 20 years under the toleration status. Unfortunately hers is not a unique situation.

Deutsch: Zurück in Deutschland. Mein Geschenk zum Jahresende von der deutschen Polizei Von Sunny Omwenyeke

Back to Germany. My End of Year Present from the German Police
By Sunny Omwenyeke

As the year 2011 was ending, the German police presented me an end-of-year gift; a reminder that racist police control is alive, well and healthy in Germany.

February 1, 2012

A committee has been formed to support protesting migrant detainees in the Lutsk Detention Centre in Ukraine.

The Committee to Support the Somalian Hunger Strikers in Lutsk Detention Centre will be mounting a picket protest outside Ukraine's London embassy next month. It is inviting everyone concerned with the plight of the Somali detainees to join the protest on Monday 6 February, at 2 pm.

This day mark one whole month of hunger strike by the 58 people involved.

Knesset approves plan to jail asylum seekers for longest period of western world in biggest prison

January 31, 2012 Ukraine

Since 6 January, 58 Somalis (13 women, including 7 minors, and 45 men, including 17 minors) who are detained in Zhuravychi detention centre near Lutsk are on hunger strike. On 29/1, they were subsequently attacked by riot police who forcefully took them to the dining room to take pictures of the refugees eating.

The hunger striking refugees demand that:

1) Somali asylum seekers are granted asylum status in Ukraine.

2) They are released from detention.

3) Asylum seekers are provided with documents so they cannot be arrested.

Mr Salomon Wantchoucou would appear at the Social Court against the Wittenberg local government for depriving him of his right to financial support accountable to him. The Local government had taken the decision to withdraw the said support because Mr Salomon Wantchoucou had not cooperated with the authourities.

Date: 24.02.2012 - TIME. 9AM
VENUE: Sozialgericht Dessau-Roßlau, Erdgeschoss, Saal 28, Will-Lohnmann-Strasse 29,06844 Dessau Roßlau

Bases of the Legal Proceeding:

Statement by Miloud L. Cherif
The VOICE Refugee Forum, Zella-Mehlis

At 18:25 on Friday 13th January 2012, the criminal investigation police of Heilbronn controlled me in the Train (RE Würsburg-Stuttgart Hbf), in Stuttgart where a workshop against deportation organised by The VOICE was taking place.