About 100 Sans-papiers are since Sunday occupying a building in Sint-Joost-ten-Node (Belgium)!! Hardly anything in English to find - no garanty for the quality of the google translation (Belgian News): ********* Sans-papiers Ebola group occupy building Sint-Joost-ten-Node 05/01/2015 About a hundred people without documents from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, three countries that are hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic, occupied since Sunday a vacant church building on the Quetelet in Sint-Joost-ten-Node. The objective of this political occupation is to obtain a temporary protection of the Belgian state, until the epidemic is dammed. The expulsions to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been temporarily suspended, but the inhabitants of these countries present in Belgium are not adjusted and are in a legal vacuum. They are, moreover, further urged to voluntarily return to their country of origin. That is unworthy and aberrant because they can not be deported, said Alexis Andries, spokesman for the association Pigment. The paperless of the Ebola group want their rights and refer to America. The US has a temporary protection for 18 months and a work permit granted to the inhabitants of these three West African countries that are most affected by the disease and living on American soil. Source: standaard.be/cnt/dmf20150105_01458957 ********* West African paperless occupy premises in Saint-Josse 06/01/2015 A hundred undocumented have a vacant building on the Quetelet in Saint-Josse occupied. The occupiers come from countries infected with Ebola Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The group was already on the street in Brussels to seek residence permits, as long as the Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa. Now they put their strength in action by occupying the church property. The occupiers want to stop the expulsions to the affected West African countries. They also require a temporary and managed care for our country. Source: brusselnieuws.be/…/west-afrikaanse-sans-papiers-… ********* Protests before: 13/11/2014 West Africans argue for temporary stay A few hundred rejected asylum seekers from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have argued Thursday in the Beguine Square, and then pulled to the Cabinet of Minister Theo Francken. They ask for a temporary legal residence in Belgium as long as the Ebola epidemic raging, and more development assistance for health care in their home countries. According to the association Pigment, which supports the former asylum seekers in their requirements, there were about four hundred asylum seekers made their way to the rally. And that despite their fear of the police, said spokesman Alexis Andries. West Africans demand a moratorium on deportations, says Andries. Although the forced evictions are silent at this time, these people are still supposed to voluntarily return to their country back to Ebola area. The stop at the forced evictions came at the request of the police more than that it is a policy decision, so the uncertainty remains. Coupled thereto also ask the sans-papiers a temporary legal residence in Belgium as long as the raging epidemic. If I MSF hear is that at least a year, said Andrew. Its not just about the Ebola epidemic. The entire health system lies flat, the schools are closed. Then must be that there be weighed individually or extended if the person found work here, for example. The meeting with the Deputy Head of Cabinet Secretary for Asylum and Migration Theo Francken (N-VA) proceeded in a positive atmosphere, says Andries. But hard promises were not made. Next Wednesday, the minister his policy statement, we still expect to Thursday or Friday answer. Will there be a rejection, then plan the former asylum seekers new actions. This is a legitimate claim. We do not intend to stop there, says Andrew. Source: brusselnieuws.be/…/west-afrikanen-betogen-voor-t… ********** Short note in English from today: deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2200753 ********* Foto: From a demonstration in November 2014, credit: Saïd Al-Haddad. Source: brusselnieuws.be/nl/nieuws/west-afrikaanse-sans-papiers-bezetten-pand-sint-joost
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:12:55 +0000
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