Some activists went to Pagani and learnt that there is a new hungerstrike on. 47 minors are on hungerstrike, and four are not even drinking. They don’t receive any medical support. Shut down Pagani!
update 4.9.09 A lot has happened. The hunger strike in Pagani is still on, and as reported above, some people even took to a thirst strike. There was a solidarity action at the detention centre yesterday. What is really bad is that they still incarcerate women with babies in Pagani, as you can see on the pictures from yesterday, and the open camp at the airport will be closed tomorrow. So it seems that the authorities really do get back to business as usual. We will not accept this, for sure. In the meanwhile, there is a lot YOU can do. Our video Voices from Inside Pagani has been shown on several TV stations, we know of both German state TV channels, the Dutch TV and CNN (but they always falsly claim that a human rights organisation put the video online. Of course it was noborder). Indeed, the situation in Pagani made news globally, and the heat is still on. You can help by making a protest in your city at the Greek embassy or consulate (if there is), like our friends in Wellington, New Zealand (!) did. You can also follow our email campaign.
In the meanwhile, the Frontex boat from Romania has left, and has been replaced by some military style outfits, having even a special “Operation Poseidon” t-shirt. Last time, they were seen controlling (quite brutally) people that take the ferry to Athens (sic). So there is two conclusions you can take from that: either that Frontex is really doing much more than policing the borders, also starting to take their actions into Schengen mainland, or you are of the impression that Europe is one big border anyway.
Minors are not supposed to be imprisoned, even by the law. During the last days dozens of them were released, under the pressure of everyday mobilisations outside the detention centre.
Migrants are still coming though and the authorities practices haven’t changed. 47 unaccompanied minor migrants, mainly from Afghanistan but also from Somalia and Palestine, are since the 1st of September on hunger strike. 4 of them don’t drink water as well. Water is not drinkable anyway – “if you drink this water you will never want to drink water again” one said to us. Some minors are been kept for more than 40 days.
This morning we made a solidarity action outside the prison and we talked with one of the imprisoned migrants.
check here for some photos: http://www.noborderlesvos09.gr/eng/node/349
Please take notice that the hungerstrike has ended. https://at.indymedia.org/node/15521
Some women from the no borders camp went to Pagani Thursday around 5 pm and said the minors had stopped the hunger strike because of intimidation by police. They were allegedly threatened to be deported back to their countries. I went to Pagani Friday and can confirm the hunger strike has ended, cannot confirm about the threats because the boys did not say anything about to me – I asked. The women who went on Thurdsday also brouht some clothes for the detainees but the police threw them in the rubbish.
How is the situation right now in Pagani? What is latest news?