KISA – Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism considers as important the release of the seven detained migrants, six Iranians and one Afghani, who were held unlawfully in the Mennogeia detention centre. The seven migrants were released after a protest that lasted for two days, who have conducted on the roof of the Mennogeia detention centre for irregular migrants. This development is particularly important, as their struggle has been vindicated and any danger for their physical integrity or even their lives has been avoided.
However, at the same time, KISA criticizes the fact that the administration of the Mennogeia detention centre before proceeding to the release of the seven migrants, charged them with the following four categories: 1) trespassing on the roof of the detention centre; 2) disruption and disorder of the detention centre; 3) destruction of a bed sheet, which has been used by the detainees in order to climb on the roof of the detention centre and then they tear it apart in order to use it as a protest banner and to cover their heads from the sun, during their stay for 48 hours on the roof of the detention centre, under temperature of more than 40 degrees, without receiving any food and water; and 4) hanging a protest banner, which wrote “No to injustice, no to racism, our families our waiting for us”, on the big sign of the central building of Mennogeia detention centre.
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