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NO PAGANI NO ANY OTHER PRISONS - On Friday 30/10 the “Initiative for the Defence of Refugees and Migrants” organised a demonstration in the town of Mytilene with the main slogan “Shut down Pagani and all detention centres”. Hundreds of residents of Mytilene participated along with 40 migrants some of them survivors of the shipwreck in Korakas.

These migrants had just been released from Pagani on a day when there was no ferry out of the island. That’s a trick that has been unashamedly used in some form or other so as to prolong the suffering of migrants. So, men, women and children are forced to spend a night or longer on the street having no other choice. Despite the millions of Euros spent for the repression of migration, for entry deterrence, detention and deportation, there are no resources for cases like these neither from the state nor from the local authorities. SOLIDARITY TO MIGRANTS’ STRUGGLES

Full declaration: http://blogs.vrahokipos.net/mpineio/2009/11/02/declaration-of-the-occupied-paparisva-building/