Asylum Seekers Protest in Silence

[Jonas Profile]

Asylum Seekers Protest in Silence

http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/06/asylum-s ... n-silence/

Terrible images are filtering in from the German Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, where one woman and six men have sewn their mouths shut, threading fishing wire through their lips to symbolise a point of no return in their hunger strike.

The dissenters are Iranian refugees who, since last March, have occupied the central square of Wuerzburg, some 400 kilometres southeast of Berlin, in protest of Germany’s national asylum policy in general, and their cases’ treatment by local authorities in particular.

The protest has escalated since early June, when a growing number of Iranian asylum seekers decided to go on hunger strike and stitch up their mouths. The group in Wuerzburg is just one cell in a larger national movement against German policies that force refugees applying for asylum into poverty and isolation.

The Iranian demonstrators have spent years demanding German recognise them as political refugees, all the while enduring extremely tough local laws. All petitioners are restricted to communal living quarters, forced to rely on packaged food rather than cooking their own meals and denied the right to work

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[mutation Profile]

Tough I phucking hate people who hurt themselved to try and make me feel bad for them! It doesnt work I just make me hate them all the more. If your desperate and want to make a point hurt someone else! That will get a reaction! Perhaps not the one you want, but then perhaps what they want isnt theirs to have!

[springer2003 Profile]

And they would expect more than free food from a country they entered illegally? The right to work, the right to social payments, the right to import their own culture onto another? Excuse me you come in to my house and seek shelter i will provide it if i have the means? Dont start dictating what i should or must give otherwise get out.