von NoBordersTeam

KIEDY: 12.02.2022 r.

GDZIE: KROSNO ODRZAŃSKIE

START: 13:30

Chcemy wyrazić solidarność ze wszystkimi osadzonymi w ośrodkach koncentracyjnych. Nie zapomnimy o nich, mimo że władza próbuje zrobić wszystko, by wymazać ich istnienie z publicznej świadomości.

Domagamy się:

• zaprzestania traktowania osób z doświadczeniem migracji jak przestępców;
• likwidacji ośrodków koncentracyjnych;
• przyjęcie przez Unię Europejską i Polskę wszystkich osób, które chcą pozostać na jej terytorium;
• wstrzymanie deportacji, ze szczególnym naciskiem na deportacje do krajów, gdzie ludzie narażeni są na utratę życia i zdrowia;
• wdrożenie programów umożliwiających adaptację w nowych krajach;
• wspólnego stworzenia nowej polityki i całkowitej zmiana systemu, który nie jest dostosowany do wyzwań obecnego świata, takich jak np globalne ocieplenie i związane z nim konsekwencje;
• wstrzymania budowy muru na granicy polsko-białoruskiej, wymierzonego bezpośrednio w osoby migrujące oraz przynoszącego bezpowrotne zniszczenie Puszczy Białowieskiej.

Migrowanie nie jest przestępstwem. Każda osoba ma prawo do opuszczenia swojego miejsca zamieszkania i szukania lepszego życia w innym. Osoby migrujące nie mogą być traktowane jak przestępcy. Pomi

mo tego, że osoby migrujące nie popełniły żadnej zbrodni i nie powinny być traktowane jak przestępcy, są ścigane i więzione.

Nie zgadzamy się na kryminalizację migracji!
Nie zgadzamy się na nielegalne pushbacki, będące bezpośrednim zagrożeniem życia!
Nie godzimy się na istnienie ośrodków koncentracyjnych, gdzie ludzie przetrzymywani są miesiącami bez wyroków, w warunkach dużo gorszych niż te w więzieniach!

Prawo do swobodnego przemieszczania się jest jednym z podstawowych ludzkich praw. Przez wieki władcy i rządy próbowały utrzymać kontrolę nad ludźmi ograniczając ich prawo do decydowania o sobie, w tym zmiany miejsca zamieszkania.

Dziś, mogłoby się wydawać, żyjemy w świecie, gdzie prawa człowieka są przestrzegane a mroczne czasy, gdy wąska grupa ludzi mogła decydować o życiu lub śmierci, wolności lub więzieniu innych, należą do przeszłości. Tymczasem na naszych oczach ma miejsce brutalna segregacja ludzi, na tych, którzy są „legalni” i tych „nielegalnych”. Ci „nielegalni” pozbawieni są podstawowych praw; prawa do wolności – bezterminowo więzieni w tzw „ośrodkach detencyjnych”, a często też prawa do życia – zatrzymani po przekroczeniu granicy, często na skraju wyczerpania, wywożeni są z powrotem do lasu i tam porzucani. Wiemy o kilkunastu osobach zamordowanych w ten sposób. Od osób uratowanych w lesie słyszeliśmy o kilkudziesięciu. Nikt nie wie dokładnie ile istnień pochłonął już reżim graniczny.
Osoby, którym udało się złożyć wnioski o azyl i te, które dzięki staraniom wielu osób i grup pomocowych, nie zostały wywiezione do lasu, trafiają do ośrodków koncentracyjnych. Nie wiedzą ile spędzą w nich czasu, nie wiedzą na jakim etapie jest ich procedura, nie mają kontaktu ze swoimi bliskimi ani ze światem zewnętrznym, przetrzymywani są w przeludnionych celach, często nie wiedząc nawet gdzie się znajdują. Tygodnie i miesiące spędzone w tych warunkach wzmagają frustrację i strach przed deportacją lub kolejnymi miesiącami w izolacji.

Uwięzieni są całkowicie pozbawiani możliwości decydowania o sobie, wybór środków protestu jest niewielki. Głodówka i bunt. To są środki ostateczne. Doprowadzeni do skrajności, narażając się na brutalną pacyfikację, stawiają na szali swoje życie w desperackim akcie walki o wolność i godność.

Reżim graniczny ma za zadanie dyscyplinować. Dyscyplinowane są osoby z doświadczeniem migracji, żyjące w ciągłej niepewności i strachu przed deportacją czy zamknięciem w więzieniu. Propaganda antymigrancka pozwala z kolei wzbudzić w społeczeństwie irracjonalny strach przed „obcymi”, który umożliwia wprowadzanie kolejnych stanów wyjątkowych i ograniczeń wolności.
Z tą ideą biegle współpracują wielkie organizacje charytatywne, hojnie dotowane przez biznesmenów i coraz większą ilość polityków. Pod ich działaniami, pozornie dyktowanymi troską o powstrzymanie wzrostu nierówności społecznych, politycznych i ekonomicznych, występujących między najbogatszymi a większością ludzi żyjących na świecie, kryje się jedynie cel utrzymania statusu quo oraz zależności krajów globalnego Południa.

Media zdążyły już przyzwyczaić nas do tego, że wartość ludzkiego życia jest różna i zależeć może tylko od tego po której stronie jakiejś granicy się znajdujemy. Nie zgadzając się na instrumentalne traktowanie ludzi na granicy, łączymy się też w walce z innymi przejawami dyskryminacji w obrębie kapitalistycznego porządku.

SOLIDARNOŚĆ NASZĄ BRONIĄ!

ENGLISH

Enough of criminalizing migration

We want to express our solidarity with all those imprisoned in closed retention centers. Officially they are called centers for foreigners, but we prefer to speak of retention centers, because the conditions in which people live there have nothing to do with what legally should be a center for foreigners.

We will not forget about these people, even though the authorities are trying to do everything in their power to erase their existence from public awareness.

Migrating is not a crime. Everyone have the right to change their place of residence, wherever it is because they are seeking for a better life or not. However, despite the fact that they did not commit any crime, migrants are all over Europe prosecuted and imprisoned.

This is unacceptable! To show our solidarity we decided that we want to pay one of the retention centers a visit.

Saturday 12.02.22: International Demonstration against all retention centres
Meeting point 13:30 in Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland
Bring your banners and friends!

Freedom of movement is one of the basic human rights. For centuries, rulers and governments have tried to keep it under control. Today it seems to us that we live in a world where human rights are respected. But a brutal segregation of people is taking place in front of our eyes, between those who are “legal” and those who are “illegal”. The “illegal” ones are deprived of basic rights; the right to freedom – indefinitely imprisoned in the so-called “detention centers”, and the right to life – people detained after crossing the border, often on the verge of exhaustion, are taken back to the forest and abandoned there. We know about a dozen people murdered in this way, we have heard about several dozen from people rescued in the forest. Nobody knows how many lives have already been consumed by the border regime in Poland and Europe.

People who managed to fill asylum applications and those who, thanks to the efforts of many people and aid groups, were not taken to the forest, end up in closed retention centers. They do not know how much time they will spend there, they do not know at what stage their procedure is, they have no contact with their relatives or the outside world, they are held in overcrowded cells, and often do not even know where they are. The lack of information given to these people about their own case – supposedly there by administrative decree -, and the absence of a real legal framework makes the living conditions inside these centers even worse than in prisons. Weeks and months spent in these conditions, fearing deportation or more months in isolation, increases frustration, depression and bad health conditions. Completely deprived of the power to decide for themselves, they have little choice of means of protest. Hunger strike and revolt. These are the last resort measures. No one who is not brought to extremes chooses to risk their lives by starving themselves or by risking brutal pacification.

Anti-immigration propaganda makes it possible to arouse an irrational fear of “strangers” in society, which enables the introduction of further states of emergency and restriction of freedom not only for migrants, but for all society. Outwardly, entrepreneurs and politicians show concern through generously subsidized charities while in the background, in politics, they do everything to maintain the status quo – namely the dependency of the so-called ‘countries of the global south’. They ignore the fact that this dependency leads to war, inequality in the distribution of resources, flight and migration. Underpinned by media reports, we are becoming more and more accustomed to the fact that a life is worth different amounts depending on which side of the border we stand.

We do not agree to such objectification of people.

We demand:

• no longer treating people with a migration experience as criminals
• liquidation of the retention centers
• admission by the European Union and Poland of all people who want to stay on its territory
• suspension of ALL deportations
• implementation of programs enabling adaptation in new countriesjointly creating a new policy and completely changing a system that is not adapted to the challenges of the present world, such as e.g. global warming and its consequences
• suspension of the construction of a wall on the Polish-Belarusian border, aimed directly at migrants and bringing the irretrievable destruction of the Białowieża Forest

We want nothing less than to destroy the Fortress Europe and an end to the global system of borders.

Thus we make this open-call for an international demo in Krosno Odrzańskie, not far from where one of the most brutal retention center, Wędrzyn, is located.

On February 12th we call all organisations and individuals in solidarity to come and gather in Krosno Odrzańskie!

Bring your banners and friends! Take care of each other. Come prepared and autonomous.
Make sure to wear a mask. There will be food.

DEUTSCH

Migration ist kein Verbrechen

Schluss mit der Kriminalisierung von Migration

Wir möchten unsere Solidarität mit all jenen zum Ausdruck bringen, die in den geschlossenen Auffanglagern inhaftiert sind. Offiziell werden sie zwar als Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen bezeichnet, wir ziehen es allerdings vor, von Auffanglagern zu sprechen, weil die Bedingungen, unter denen Menschen dort leben, nichts mit dem zu tun haben, was rechtlich gesehen eine Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung sein sollte.

Wir werden diese Menschen nicht vergessen, auch wenn die Behörden alles in ihrer Macht stehende tun, um ihre Existenz aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein fernzuhalten.

Bewegungsfreiheit ist kein Verbrechen. Jeder Mensch hat das Recht, den Wohnsitz zu wechseln, sei es, weil er ein besseres Leben sucht oder aus jeglichen anderen Gründen. Doch obwohl sie kein Verbrechen begangen haben, werden Migrant:innen in ganz Europa verfolgt und inhaftiert.

Das ist inakzeptabel! Um unsere Solidarität zu zeigen, haben wir uns entschieden, einem der geschlossenen Auffanglager einen Besuch abzustatten.

Samstag 12.02.22: Internationale Demonstration gegen das Auffanglagern

Treffpunkt 13:30 Uhr in Krosno Odrzańskie, Polen

Bringt eure Transpis und Freund:innen mit!

Bewegungsfreiheit ist eines der grundlegenden Menschenrechte. Jahrhunderte lang haben Herrschende und Regierungen versucht, sie unter Kontrolle zu halten. Heute haben wir den Eindruck, in einer Welt zu leben, in der die Menschenrechte geachtet werden. Aber vor unseren Augen findet eine brutale Trennung statt, zwischen Menschen, die “legal” sind, und denen, die “illegal” sind. Den “Illegalen” werden die grundlegenden Rechte vorenthalten: das Recht auf Freiheit – sie werden auf unbestimmte Zeit in den so genannten “Ausländerzentren” inhaftiert – sowie das Recht auf Leben – die Menschen, die nach dem Grenzübertritt festgenommen werden, sind oft am Rande der Erschöpfung und werden in den Wald zurückgebracht und dort ausgesetzt. Wir wissen von einem Dutzend Menschen, die auf diese Weise ermordet wurden. Wir haben von mehreren Dutzend Menschen gehört, die im Wald in letzer Minute gerettet wurden. Niemand weiß, wie viele Menschenleben das Grenzregime in Polen und Europa bereits gekostet hat.

Menschen, die es geschafft haben, einen Asylantrag zu stellen, und solche, die dank der Bemühungen vieler Hilfsorganisationen und Einzelpersonen nicht in den Wald gebracht wurden, landen in geschlossenen Auffanglagern. Sie wissen nicht, wie viel Zeit sie dort verbringen werden, sie wissen nicht, in welcher Phase der Bearbeitung sich ihr Verfahren befindet, sie haben keinen Kontakt zu ihren Angehörigen oder zur Außenwelt, sie werden in überfüllten Zellen festgehalten und wissen oft nicht mal, wo sie sich befinden. Der Mangel an Informationen, die diese Menschen über ihren eigenen Fall erhalten (der angeblich durch einen Verwaltungserlass geregelt ist), und das Fehlen eines echten rechtlichen Rahmens machen die Lebensbedingungen in diesen Zentren noch schlimmer als in den Gefängnissen. Wochen- und Monatelange Aufenthalte unter diesen Bedingungen, die Angst vor der Abschiebung oder weitere Monate in Isolation verstärken Frustration, Depression und den oft ohnehin schon schlechten Gesundheitszustand. Völlig der Möglichkeit beraubt, selbst zu entscheiden, haben sie kaum eine Wahl der Protestmittel. Hungerstreik und Revolte. Das sind die letzten Mittel, die zur Verfügung stehen. Niemand, der nicht zum Äußersten getrieben wird, bringt sein Leben in Gefahr, indem er hungert oder eine brutale Unterwerfung riskiert.

Die migrationsfeindliche Propaganda schürt in der Gesellschaft eine irrationale Angst vor “Fremden”, die die Einführung weiterer Ausnahmezustände und somit die Einschränkung der Freiheit für die gesamte Gesellschaft ermöglicht.
Nach außen hin zeigen sich Unternehmer- und Politiker:innen durch großzügig subventionierte Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen besorgt während sie im Hintergrund, in der Politik alles daran setzen den Status quo – nämlich die Abhängigkeit der sog. ‘Länder des globalen Südens’ aufrechtzuerhalten. Dabei ignorieren Sie, dass genau diese Abhängigkeit zu Krieg, ungleichheit in der Ressourcenverteilung, Flucht- und Migration führt.
Durch Medienberichte untermauert, gewöhnen wir uns immer mehr daran, dass ein Leben unterschiedlich viel wert ist, jenachdem, auf welcher Seite der Grenze wir stehen.

Eine Solche Objektivierung von Menschen können und dürfen wir nicht weiter zulassen!

Wir fordern:

• Schluss mit der Kriminalisierung von Menschen mit Migrationserfahrung
• die Auflösung von Auffanglagern
• die Aufnahme aller Menschen, die auf dem Gebiet der Europäischen Union und Polens bleiben wollen, durch die Europäische Union
• Aussetzung ALLER Abschiebungen
• Umsetzung von Programmen, die eine Integration in neue Länder ermöglichen
• Gemeinsame Entwicklung einer neuen Politik und vollständige Veränderung eines Systems, das nicht an die Herausforderungen der heutigen Welt angepasst ist, wie z.B. die globale Erwärmung und ihre Folge
• die Aussetzung des Baus einer Mauer an der polnisch-weißrussischen Grenze, die sich direkt gegen Migrant:innen richtet und die unwiederbringliche Zerstörung des Białowieża-Waldes mit sich bringt

Wir wollen nichts weniger als die Zerstörung der Festung Europa und ein Ende des globalen Grenzsystems.

Deshalb rufen wir alle solidarischen Organisationen und Einzelpersonen zu einer internationalen Demo in Krosno Odrzańskie auf!
Bringt eure Transpis und Freund:innen mit! Kümmert euch umeinander. Kommt vorbereitet und autonom. Tragt unbedingt eine Maske. Es wird Essen geben.

von No Border Assembly // website – twitter – facebook

This brochure has gathered a list of corporations that profit from deportations, from managing detention centers, from building fences, selling ships, drones or planes patrolling the Mediterranean, subcontracted security guards, providing data collection, border surveillance software, id control mechanisms, racist policy consultation, prison construction and any other form of oppression that limits peoples freedom of movement and right to stay.

The external borders of Europe are not in Berlin, but the border regime is all around us. This regime consists of more than just the state. In capitalism, many forms of border oppression are subcontracted to corporations. Borders are very profitable. Therefore this market is dominated by huge multinational corporations. And since keywords of the European borders are militarisation and surveillance, the list of corporate border profiteers is full of the usual suspects that also profit from war, prisons and privacy infringement.

The goal of this booklet is to promote action in Berlin and Brandenburg. Hence the focus is very much on companies that have an office in Berlin or action possibilities based on local struggles.

-> READ FULL BROCHURE HERE <-

List of Border Profiteers

1. DEPORTATION COLLABORATORS
✗ Lufthansa – Eurowings
✗ Privilege Style
✗ Corendon Airlines
✗ Turyol / Jalem Tur
✗ Enter Air

2. BORDER MILITARISATION
✗ Airbus – Hensholdt
✗ Otokar – Koç Holding
✗ Thales

3. DETENTION INDUSTRY
✗ European Homecare
✗ Pulsm – Morten Group
✗ Markgraf
✗ Baukontor Lange

4. SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE
✗ Sopra Steria
✗ Cevision

5. PRIVATE GUARDS
✗ City Schutz
✗ Securitas
✗ L&S Sicherheit
✗ Secura Protect

6. BORDER CONSULTANCY
✗ McKinsey

Mapping the revolt in Italian detention centres. Read here

We are political activists who refuse to accept this inhuman practice of the German state. Our network is called ‘Break Deportation’. We demand the right to stay for all and the immediate stop to all deportations. In order to achieve that, refugees must organize themselves in communities with other refugee groups like The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena and Roma Community Thueringen to inspire a broader community of refugees and strengthen the struggles, to empower and resist together with supporters as we unite against the Deportation System in Germany and Europe.

That’s why we want to get to know you! We plan to visit you during the coming months on a regular basis in your detention centres or prisons. We want to have an exchange with you on the current developments and to keep each other up to date. How is the situation in the detention centres, in the refugee camps and your homes? Have you heard of deportations or are you yourselves threatened with deportation? How can we together achieve that everyone will stay where they want? Get together, exchange views both among yourselves and with us!

Let us break the isolation and stop deportations together – Touch One Touch All!

Campaign for Political Self-Organisation of Refugees in Thueringen – Refugees in Germany are invited to join this Facebook group: Refugee-Migrants Political Community
Let us break the isolation and stop deportations together – Touch One Touch All!

More Information about the Network: http://breakdeportation.blogsport.de

Roma Thueringen, Gotthardtstraße 21, 4. Floor, 99084 Erfurt (Meetings on every Saturday at 7pm)
Email: roma-thueringen@posteo.de Facebook: Roma Thueringen

The VOICE Refugee Forum, Schillergaesschen 5, 07745 Jena (Meetings on every Thursday at 6pm),
Phone: 017624568988, Email.: thevoicerefugeeforum@riseup.net, http://thevoiceforum.org
Refugees in Germany are invited to join this Facebook group: Refugee-Migrants Political Community

Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Alexandra Hall  (Pluto Press: London and New York, 2012). 

This book takes an inside look into detention centres and describes in detail everyday encounters  between immigrant/detention  officials and immigrants. Please click here for the  review of this critical book.

After a Hungerstrike of refugees of in October 2013 and a new wave of deportations the refugees started a riot inside the closed camp of Békéscsaba in November 2013, showing their frustration about being detained without reason, the inhuman conditions in the detention camp and the daily danger of sudden push back to Serbia. Their struggle for a freedom of movement, without being kept like prisoners, for the possibility to live without the threat to be deported from the EU, is a strong form of resistance of refugees against the european border system. M. is one of the 192 refugees who were there during the protest. A testimony…

Many times we made some small protests inside the camp in order to improve our conditions inside. For example we organized to reject food collectively.

It started all when they took us to the closed camp. After our asylum application we were brought there. In front of court they extend the cases for at least 2 months. Afterwards they keep us waiting. The closed camp is like a prison. In Békéscsaba there were about 200 people, distributed to 2 buildings. The conditions were quite bad. We couldn’t decide when to take food, or how much. It was also often bad food, or cold.

Then we heard that if one stays in the camp for 6 months they will deport us back [to outside of the EU/Serbia]. We didn’t know exactly what would happen after this 2 months that our case was extended. During this period I have seen that they deported people who have been there for 4 months (from Pakistan, Algeria, and other countries). They [the wardens, the police] would just come, without informing before and deporting them the same night or the early morning of the next day. The people were angry that they just deport us back. We came to seek for asylum and they would just push us back to Serbia. Some of the people who were deported didn’t even have a negative asylum decision.

We talked about it and what to do. When some refugees from Mali came new to the camp, they asked around what is going on. Why we are kept in detention: we are not criminals we are refugees. Then they started hungerstrike for freedom. It started the 10 of October 2013 and lasted for 8 days. On the 14 of October about 55 people from different countries joined the hungerstrike. The camp authorities came and said they should stop the hungerstrike immediately. The director promised that if they stop their hunger strike, he will accelerate their asylum procedure. But they didn’t trust these empty promises. After the 8th day of the hungerstrike- one on the guys fainted. He was brought to hospital. I also saw that there were people from the media, trying to get access to the camp for interviews.

After that they stopped the hungerstrike. 

Surprisingly after one week 7 of the 8 Malians, who had first started the hungerstrike, recived a negative asylum decision. To one of them they gave a positive answer. It was a direct reaction on their protest. If you get a negative decision in your asylum case you have 3 days time to make an appeal against that, in order to achieve that your case is checked by the court again. This means you have to wait one month more in the closed camp. But many of us don’t know that. Only one of the 7 made an appeal, the other 6 guys got deported to Serbia 4 days after. 

The situation now was the same as before. I only saw 2 people who had the possibilities to change from the prison camp to an open refugee-camp. In their case it was because of health problems. Girls are generally put to open camps. 

After about 2 weeks we organized a protest against our deportation and for freedom. It was after an incident, where they deported 3 Pakistanis that had been there 4 months.  The same happened to a group of Senegalese. It was without reason.  Some time after we heard that because of the cold in Serbia where they have no place to stay, one of them died. He froze to death, sleeping outside in the Serbian forests. Almost everyone participated in the protest. We stood outside in the yard, holding up signst were we wrote “no deport” and other slogans. It was a tense atmosphere, people were annoyed, standing up, protesting, shouting but everything stayed peaceful.  Our action was to invisible to the ‘o– it was directed to the authorities of the detention camp. The chiefs of the camp and the staff came and they told us they cannot do anything. They said, that they are like prison keepers. The order comes from Budapest and our protest wouldn’t change anything. Even they recommend us to cancel our asylum and leave Hungary. They told us our fingerprints would then only be registered in Hungary and we could claim asylum in another EU country. Even though we were peaceful many police came with dogs and stayed inside the camp until 3 am of the next day. I remember the police commissioner (head of police) of Békéscsaba city saying: if he would be in our position he would do the same.

We refused to give our names to the camp authorities and police, when they required a list of refugees who made the protest. The 8 hungerstrikers had done this before and we knew what had happened to them. During this protest there was no media present. But how could we address the public with our demands?

On the 11 of November, again 3 people got informed that they would be deported. I know it was a Monday. They reacted very angrily. The majority of refugees in Békéscsaba stood behind them. It was too much this time. Everything happened fastly. There was a meeting and after the lunch the riot started: things inside the prison were destroyed, glass broke, people were breaking the cameras and one of the buildings was set on fire. All the time everybody was saying ‘we need freedom’. I don’t know it exactly, I guess around 100 people from many different countries participated in the uprising. 2 people escaped at that time. 

All the staff from the camp, they ran away, even the security-guards. The reason why the asylum seekers did not run was that the detentions center authorities kept all our belongings and our money. Also the camp is far from the city. Some of us tried to break the gate to go out, so people outside could see them and hear their demands, simply make their feelings heard, but after one hour the police came. They kept people from going out. At first they evaquated the people that had not taken part in the riot. I saw many many police, completely armed, with dogs the entering, shouting that everybody should stop.

The same day the police transferred all of us to other closed camps all over Hungary, saying that the camp was not secure anymore. They didn’t allow some of us to pack their personal belongings. After one week we were were brought back to Békéscsaba. In the meantime one of the buildings had been renovated. When we came back the security-guards were behaving much stricter than before. The conditions had not changed, it had gotten worse.  Now they don’t tell people anymore in advance that they are facing deportation.  Before the riot, a person would be informed the same day about the upcoming forceful replacement, but now they just come, pick the asylum seekers up and deport them. 

For some time it seemed as if they would treat us better, maybe to prevent another protest of asylum seekers. The milk in the morning was now warm, and not anymore served cold. But still, the situation inside the detention is very bad. Even they forbid you to take another meal if you are still hungry.

Everything happened without public attention. The riot and its revolutionary potential did’nt leave the walls of the asylum-prison. The few reports focused on ‘the good work of the hungarian firefighters’, reproducing racist views on the migration issue and not contextualizing the refugee-riot as a as a collective and self-organized step to fight the border system. The border can be anywhere for illegalized people. It is a cruel system that divides people into those that have papers and those who have not, leaving the last group completely marginalized. But a dehumanisied society is a society that harms everyone. The fact that asylum seekeers that are kept in closed detention-centres needs more critical attention. To scandalize the bad conditions can’t be enough.

*M  decided to stay in the detention center, but he, like many other  refugees arriving in Hungary, didn’t get the chance to have a fair  asylum procedure. He was expulsed of the country by the Hungarian police  illegally, not having received the final negative asylum decision.

[1] the other two reception centres are in Debrecen and Bicske—so called non-secure facilities- where asylum seekers are able to freely leave these facilities during the day, for up to 24 hours.