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INFO EVENT & MOBILIZATION To the DEMONSTRATION on January 7th 2023 in DESSAU

OURY JALLOH – THAT WAS MURDER!

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Oury Jalloh was unlawfully arrested, unlawfully detained and shackled, unlawfully blood drawn, tortured, killed and burned to death by police officers of the Dessau police station on January 7, 2005. In the course of the independent investigation by the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh, two other homicide crimes committed by the Dessau police also came to public attention:

  • On December 7, 1997, Hans-Jürgen Rose was severely brutalized at the Dessau police station and subsequently dumped in front of a house entrance in the close neighborhood – he succumbed to his severe internal injuries only a few hours later on December 8, 1997
  • On October 29, 2002, Mario Bichtemann was illegally taken into custody by Dessau police officers and „found“ dead the next day in custody cell no. 5 with a fractured skull base and a fatal brain hemorrhage.

To this day, law enforcement agencies, courts, and state politicians refuse to acknowledge these crimes and draw appropriate criminal consequences. The crimes have remained allegedly „unsolved“, unatoned, without official apologies and without compensation until today!

The brutal, racist murder of brother Oury Jalloh will now be 18 years ago on January 7, 2023.

In the face of the dehumanizing series of murders in the Dessau police station and their systematic impunity, we call on all people and especially our Black and migrant communities to join us in the commemoration demonstration in Dessau to remember those who died and were humiliated in the Dessau murder house, to demand official acknowledgement of the crimes and appropriate prosecution.

The murder, the burning and the previous torture of Oury Jalloh have long been extensively and scientifically proven by a large number of forensic reports – what is missing is the constitutional recognition of the facts and respective consequences.

For 18 years, public prosecutors, courts, and political leaders have sabotaged the investigation ex officio through untenable hypotheses, through systematic suppression and destruction of evidence, through purposeful manipulation of expert opinions and their results, and through deliberate restriction of the lines of investigation and charges.

The Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh, on the other hand, has impressively demonstrated in these 18 years, on the basis of fire reports, file reports, medical reports and forensic reconstructions, that

  • Oury Jalloh did not have a lighter and the alleged „evidence“ could not have been on death row
  • Oury Jalloh must have been at least incapacitated or unconscious or even already dead at the time of the setting of the fire, since neither fire gases in his blood nor stress factors in his urine were detectable
  • Oury Jalloh received severe head injuries and rib fractures shortly before his death
  • setting fire to the fireproof mattress without accelerant could not be successful from the point of view of fire physics
  • the fire pattern from cell no. 5 could not be achieved without the use of fire accelerant – and
  • that the cell door must probably have been open for the entire duration of the fire.

On Thursday, December 22, 2022, we therefore cordially invite you to an information event together with the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh at the International Center B5 (Brigittenstraße 5, 20359 Hamburg-St. Pauli) to inform you about the current state of affairs, to answer your questions and to organize our joint journey to Dessau.

No JUSTICE – No PEACE

Touch ONE – Touch ALL

BREAK the SILENCE

INFOVERANSTALTUNG & MOBILISATION zur DEMONSTRATION am 7. Januar 2023 in DESSAU

OURY JALLOH – DAS WAR MORD!

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Oury Jalloh wurde am 7. Januar 2005 von Polizeibeamten des Polizeireviers Dessau rechtswidrig verhaftet, rechtswidrig inhaftiert und gefesselt, rechtswidrig Blut abgenommen, gefoltert, getötet und verbrannt. Im Zuge der unabhängigen Aufklärung durch die Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh wurden auch noch zwei weitere Tötungsverbrechen der Dessauer Polizei bekannt:

  • Am 7. Dezember 1997 wurde Hans-Jürgen Rose im Polizeirevier Dessau schwerst misshandelt und anschließend in der unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft vor einem Hauseingang abgelegt – er erlag nur wenige Stunden später seinen schwersten inneren Verletzungen am 8. Dezember 1997
  • Am 29. Oktober 2002 wurde Mario Bichtemann von Dessauer Polizeibeamten rechtswidrig in Gewahrsam genommen und am Tag darauf tot mit einem Schädelbasisbruch und einer tödlichen Hirnblutung in der Gewahrsamszelle Nr. 5 „aufgefunden“

Bis heute weigern sich die Strafverfolgungsbehörden, Gerichte und die Landespolitik, diese Straftaten anzuerkennen und entsprechende strafrechtliche Konsequenzen zu ziehen. Die Verbrechen sind bis heute angeblich „unaufgeklärt“, ungesühnt, ohne offizielle Entschuldigungen und ohne Entschädigung geblieben!

Der brutale, rassistische Mord an Bruder Oury Jalloh jährt sich am 7. Januar 2023 zum nunmehr 18. Mal.

Im Angesicht der menschenverachtenden Mordserie im Dessauer Polizeirevier und deren systematischer Straflosigkeit rufen wir alle Menschen und insbesondere unsere Schwarzen und migrantischen Communities dazu auf, mit uns gemeinsam zur Gedenkdemonstration nach Dessau zu fahren, um den Toten und Gedemütigten des Dessauer Mordrevieres zu gedenken, die offizielle Anerkennung der Verbrechen und die entsprechende Strafverfolgung einzufordern.

Der Mord, die Verbrennung und die vorherige Folter von Oury Jalloh sind längst umfänglich und wissenschaftlich fundiert durch eine Vielzahl an forensischen Gutachten bewiesen worden – was fehlt ist die rechtsstaatliche Anerkenntnis der Faktenlage und entsprechende Konsequenzen.

Seit 18 Jahren sabotieren Staatsanwaltschaften, Gerichte und politische Verantwortungsträger*innen die Aufklärung von Amts wegen durch unhaltbare Hypothesen, durch systematische Beweismittelunterdrückung und -vernichtung, durch zweckorientierte Manipulationen von Gutachtenaufträgen und –ergebnissen sowie durch zielgerichtete Einschränkung der Ermittlungsrichtungen und Anklagepunkte.

Die Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh hat in diesen 18 Jahren dagegen anhand von Brandgutachten, Aktengutachten, medizinischen Gutachten und forensischen Rekonstruktionen eindrücklich bewiesen, dass

  • Oury Jalloh kein Feuerzeug hatte und das angebliche „Beweismittel“ nicht in der Todeszelle gewesen sein kann
  • Oury Jalloh zum Zeitpunkt der Brandlegung zumindest handlungsunfähig bzw. bewusstlos oder sogar bereits tot gewesen muss, da weder Brandgase in seinem Blut, noch Stressfaktoren in seinem Urin nachweisbar waren
  • Oury Jalloh kurz vor seinem Tod schwere Kopfverletzungen und Rippenbrüche zugefügt bekam
  • eine Brandlegung an der feuerfesten Matratze ohne Brandbeschleuniger brandphysikalisch nicht erfolgreich sein konnte
  • das Brandbild aus Zelle Nr. 5 ohne die Verwendung von Brandbeschleuniger nicht erreicht werden kann – und
  • dass die Zellentür wahrscheinlich die gesamte Brandzeit über offen gestanden haben muss

Am Donnerstag, den 22.12.2022 laden wir Euch deswegen herzlich zu einer Infoveranstaltung gemeinsam mit der Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh in das Internationale Zentrum B5 (Brigittenstraße 5, 20359 Hamburg-St. Pauli) ein, um Euch zum aktuellen Stand zu informieren, Eure Fragen zu beantworten und die gemeinsame Anreise am 7. Januar 2023 nach Dessau zu organisieren.

No JUSTICE – No PEACE

Touch ONE – Touch ALL

BREAK the SILENCE

JUNETEENTH Black Community Fundraiser 2022_EN

MUSIC IS WEAPON FOR RESISTANCE & SELF-CARE

We invite you to a 3-hour program of music, information, poetry and exchange!

SPREAD THE WORD – GET READY – COME ALONG
Celebrating Resilience and Liberation

On 19 June 2022

from 15:00 to 18:00

at Kampnagel (Hamburg)

FB_Event JUNETEENTH-Fundraiser BLACK COMMUNITY

The programme includes:

Keynote speech, Live music, Chants, performance, Traditional drum music, Video clips, Presentations, Live music and DJ

This fundraising event is part of our overall commitment and ongoing efforts for equality and justice through advocacy, public awareness, community care, empowerment and education.

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JUNETEENTH Black Community Fundraiser 2022_DE

COMING TOGETHER ON JUNETEENTH

Wir laden Euch zu einem 3-stündigen Programm aus Musik, Information, Poesie und Austausch ein!

WEITERSAGEN – MITMACHEN – VORBEIKOMMEN

Wir feiern Resilienz und Befreiung

Am 19. Juni 2022
von 15:00 bis 18:00 Uhr

im Kampnagel (Hamburg)

Das Programm bietet Euch:

Keynote-Rede, Live-Musik, Chants, Performance, traditionelle Trommelmusik, Videoclips, Präsentationen, Live-Musik und DJ

Diese Benefizveranstaltung ist Teil unseres allgemeinen Engagements und unserer kontinuierlichen Bemühungen um Gleichberechtigung und Gerechtigkeit durch Lobbyarbeit, Sensibilisierung der Öffentlichkeit, Unterstützung in der Gemeinschaft, Empowerment und Bildung.

100 % der gespendeten Gelder werden für folgende Bereiche verwendet:

– Bildung und Rechtsberatung im Rahmen unserer Arbeit mit Familien und Angehörigen, die von Rassismus und struktureller Gewalt betroffen sind

– die Entwicklung und Ausbildung junger Menschen zur Schaffung von Chancengleichheit und Bildung in Schulen und in ehrenamtlichen Diensten für unsere Community

– unsere Arbeit mit marginalisierten Migrantengruppen

– Unterstützung unserer Arbeit zur medizinischen Beratung und psychologischen Betreuung von Hilfsbedürftigen

– Unterstützung unserer Arbeit mit Afrikaner*innen aus der Ukraine und anderen Drittstaatsangehörigen, denen kein Schutz gewährt wird.

Damit wir diese wichtige Arbeit auch in Zukunft fortsetzen können, brauchen wir vor allem mehr persönliches Engagement innerhalb unserer Community.

Spenden werden auf der Veranstaltung in bar oder auf GoFundMe entgegengenommen:

GoFundMe JUNETEENTH 2022 Black Community

Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil unseres allgemeinen Engagements, das wir mit allen Mitteln fortsetzen wollen, wozu auch die Kunst als eine Waffe des Widerstands und der Self-Care gehört.

Unsere erste Spendenaktion auf Kampnagel war eine Reaktion auf den Mord an Brother Tonou Mbobda im Jahr 2019. Die jahrhundertelange strukturelle Unterdrückung, die staatlich sanktionierte Gewalt und der systemische Rassismus, mit denen Schwarze Menschen konfrontiert werden, sind immer noch eine alltägliche Erfahrung in unseren Communities.

Wir dürfen nie vergessen, dass es noch so viel Arbeit zu tun gibt.

Wir hoffen, dass Ihr uns helfen werdet, die bevorstehende Spendenaktion bekannt zu machen, und danken Euch dafür herzlich!

World Refugge Day 2022 – Demonstration for Equality of Treatment

 
On this year’s World Refugee Day on June 20, we want to show solidarity especially with African and international refugees that fled the war in Ukraine and are being discriminated against on racial, ethnical or national grounds. They are refugees of the same war, have suffered the same trauma of war and flight from war, had to leave behind their valuables and belongings, their normal lives and achievements – but are treated differently through discrimination and exclusion from temporary protection.
 
We want to advocate for the right to equal treatment of ALL refugees of ALL wars or due to ALL other valid reasons to flee once country of living.
 
Pls read the Statement of the self-organized Refugee group “Africans From Ukraine” here: https://blackcommunityhamburg.blackblogs.org/2022/03/29/statement-africansfromua-on-equal-treatment/
 

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Global Pathology of Wars, Borders, Migration and Exclusions from Equality

EUROPEAN DAYS OF SOLIDARITY WITH ALL REFUGEES FROM UKRAINE

(APRIL 25 to MAY 25, 2022)

April 25, 2022 | 19-21 h – Online-Zoom-Meeting

Meeting-Link: https://t1p.de/European-Days-of-Solidarity-with-ALL-Refugees-from-Ukraine (Log-In with Zoom-Account obligatory!)

Keynote Speaker:  Harsha Walia (Canada)

Global Pathology of Wars, Borders, Migration and Exclusions from Equality:

Racialized violence and discrimination of refugees fleeing the European war in Ukraine on all levels and at all stages of their flight. The European Council’s choice to exclude 3rd country national refugees of the war in Ukraine was opening doors and opportunities for arbitrary administrative and executive decision making including violations of and obstructions from refuge and human rights. Black & Brown refugees/displaced are being neglected and left to the charity of civil society. The shameful neglects target also minorities like Roma/Sinti. 

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University and Higher Education in Germany

Donnerstag | 17.3.2022 – 18h | Thursday

Information event for Africans who seek to continue their disrupted studies in GermanyLet’s talk about: „University and Higher Education in Germany“

 
Get important information about the German higher education and the latest facts that concern African students who fled the war in Ukraine, as well as helpful content and exclusive tips.
 
Host: Sista Oloruntoyin
 
Speaker: Brother @Jethro Chikato – Engineer from Zimbabwe based in Hamburg, Germany – School Director and Educator providing educational services and medial help to students especially of African Descent
 
We give guidance and tips to those who would like to take up studies in Germany.
This includes: career guidance, choice of degree programs, applications, students jobs and meeting required conditions to study here.
 
We look forward to assisting you, so that you can make a difference here and on the continent.
 
„You’re the ones we have been waiting for“

Call for solidarity and equal treatment of all refugees of the Ukraine war

Hamburg, March 9, 2022

Call for solidarity and equal treatment of all refugees of the Ukraine war

The war in Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee war-torn areas, and many more are currently either unable to escape the hostilities or are still on the run.

Unfortunately, people of African Descent have experienced racial discrimination, horrific treatment, and violence at the EU’s external and internal borders, and exclusion from public transportation as they have fled. In particular, people of African descent were excluded from intra-Ukrainian train and bus travel and were forced to trek for days with children and in freezing temperatures. Families and circles of friends were sometimes separated or torn apart. At Ukrainian borders, Blacks were prevented from leaving the country for days at a time and were left to fend for themselves without shelter from the cold and wet. Once again Black people face a double-sided sword of war and racism.

Due to this unbearable situation for people of African Descent in war-torn Ukraine, our Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense joined the rescue action #EvacuateAfricansFromUA, initiated by Asmaras – World e.V.  and the Association of Mandate Bearers of African Descent [VMA] e.V., in collaboration with The African Network of Germany [TANG] e.V..

Within the framework of this rescue operation, we participated logistically and organizationally in the rescue operation by traveling with the bus convoys to the Polish-Ukrainian border and bringing back refugees. In the last three weeks, we have self-organized accommodation, medical consultations, legal advice, crisis intervention, psychological counselling and for African refugees, as well as care for Ukraine war refugees of other origins.

Since the European states offered immediate, unconditional assistance to war refugees from Ukraine right from the beginning only to people with Ukrainian citizenship and people with permanent residence permits in Ukraine, all other war refugees like students or temporary residence permit holders were unequivocally signalled by the border authorities of neighboring states that they were not welcome, would not receive official assistance, and must leave the EU-Schengen area as soon as possible.

The Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defence condemns the unequal treatment of vulnerable people who have all been equally affected by the war in Ukraine and we demand that unconditional and equal protection be distributed regardless of nationality or residence status at the time of the start of the war on February 24, 2022.

Dividing war refugees into groups of those worthy of protection and those groups not worthy of protection is a painful double standard that is neither acceptable nor consistent with universal human rights. The affected and marginalized people have found themselves in this war situation through no fault of their own, and they were all driven out of what they thought was a safe home in Ukraine where they had legalized residency conditions.

The consensual and immediate offer of protection for war refugees with Ukrainian citizenship must be followed by comparable offers of protection for ALL other victims of this European war if the much-invoked European values and principles of humanity and equal treatment are to be taken seriously, especially when war and hardship make it particularly necessary.

Against this backdrop, we take note of the transitional regulation issued by the German government on March 7, 2022, according to which Ukrainian war refugees from third countries are to be temporarily exempted from the requirement of a residence permit until May 23, 2022, although the arbitrary setting of a deadline without reference to the end of the Ukrainian war seems neither appropriate nor comprehensible. What happens after May 23, 2022?

We point out that a temporary exemption is no guarantee for a residence permit – after the deadline expires, there is a risk that registered persons will be obliged to leave the country again or will be forcibly deported. This is not acceptable. It is a shame if the German authorities fail to challenge the violence of migration policy and choose to use citizenship as a racializing weapon.

We draw particular attention to the plight of pregnant women and also children. Children and their families, regardless of their nationality and especially when fleeing war, should be given priority and equal treatment and urgently receive humanitarian assistance, protection and child-friendly housing and education.

We demand

– Residence permits for ALL people affected and displaced by the war in Ukraine

– immediate right to stay for pregnant women, children and families

– immediate and unconditional access to medical and psychological care

– possibilities to receive BAföG or scholarships for ALL students affected by the Ukraine war

– issuance of work and student permits to complete or continue studies

as to enable all people affected by this extraordinary war situation to live a largely self-determined life in Germany.

Students among the non-Ukrainian nationals who had to flee from the war already had to bear and traumatic experiences and financial burdens for their respective studies in Ukraine. We demand the exploration of all possibilities to avoid financial double burdens for normative study access here in Germany and to create regulations for the transitional continuation of their courses of study interrupted by war as well as for the acquisition of the necessary language skills.

The registration of African students and nationals of third countries other than Ukraine who were legally in Ukraine at the time of the outbreak of war should be carried out without forcing them to apply for asylum.

We would like to appeal to all people of African origin and the Afro-diasporic communities national associations, churches, mosques, etc. to join the demands formulated here to the federal and state politicians and to organise together. Refugee work for the most neglected groups needs all of our commitment and networking so that the available resources can be optimally used and coordinated.

We thank Hamburg’s civil society, anti-racist organisations, labour unions, student organisations for the extraordinary solidarity and concrete willingness to help, especially those people who have been racially marginalised alongside the unspeakable traumas of war.

The German government has a responsibility to ensure that ALL refugees not only have safety but also equal access to rebuild their life and heal in dignity. Majority of „Africans Fleeing Ukraine“ can barely survive in Hamburg without self-organised civil society solidarity measures.

The refugee crisis in Ukraine is not only an important opportunity for Germany and Europe to demonstrate its humanitarian values and commitment to the global refugee protection regime, but also a critical moment of reflection. It is a question of political and humanitarian decision-making at the federal and state level as to how the effective and equal protection of all Ukrainian war refugees can be concretely designed and implemented.

This is not the time for legal restrictions and false demarcations. We call for a wholesome ethic of care and responsibility.

Grant full protection to ALL refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Action must be taken NOW!                                                                                    

Touch One -Touch All!

Individuals and organizations who would like to support this appeal, please let us know by mail info@blackcommunitycoalition.de.

 

1st Signatories:

Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense

Black Community Hamburg

ARRiVATi – Community Care for BPoC

AKONDA – Eine Welt Café Hamburg

Alafia Afrika Festival Hamburg

African Community Organizers

ASUIHA – African Survival in Hamburg

ARCA – Afrikanisches Bildungszentrum Hamburg

Asmara’s World

Black Media Group

Tschoobé For Freedom

 

2nd Signatories

Park Fiction Komitee

 

Online-Infoveranstaltung Oury Jalloh 26. November 2021

Infoveranstaltung zum aktuellen Stand & Demo-Mobilisation zum 7. Januar 2022

 
Gemeinsame Infoveranstaltung der BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition for Justice & Self-Defence mit der Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh
 
Zoom-Online-Veranstaltung:
 
Die Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh (https://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com/) hat am 3. November 2021 ihr mittlerweile fünftes zivilgesellschaftlich beauftragtes Gutachten im Fall Oury Jalloh vorgestellt. Dieses Brandgutachten des renommierten britischen Brandforensikers Iain Peck von den Principal Forensic Services UK beruht auf den Erkenntnissen aus einer detailgetreuen Rekonstruktion der Situation in der Todeszelle Nr. 5 des Dessauer Polizeireviers am 7. Januar 2005 in einem originalgetreuen Zellennachbau dieser Zelle. Peck weist damit forensisch und wissenschaftlich fundiert nach, dass das Brandbild des 7. Januar 2005 nur unter Verwendung eines Brandbeschleunigers entstanden sein kann:
 

Oury Jalloh wurde von deutschen Polizisten gefoltert, ermordet und verbrannt

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Institutioneller Rassismus in der Medizin

Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema

„Institutioneller Rassismus in der Medizin: Perspektiven für Gesundheitserziehung, Patientenbefähigung und Rechenschaftspflicht“

vom 01.10.2021 im Rahmenprogramm „Politisches Denken & Kritisches Bewusstsein“, organisiert von der BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition for Justice & Self-Defence beim ALAFIA 2021 – Afrika Festival 

Panel:

Moderation Sista Oloruntoyin (BCCJSD und ARRiVATi-Community Care)

– Ngozi Odenigbo (Black in Medicine – Netzwerk für Schwarze Mediziner*innen – https://blackinmedicine.de/)

– Die Minga Katjomuise (Bundesfachnetz Gesundheit & Rassismus – https://www.gesundheit-und-rassismus.de/)

– Daniel Manwire (Initiative in Gedenken an Achidi John)

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