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#Belgium #HungerStike 3/3
Another person currently on strike is also extremely weakened, to the point of regularly lose consciousness. It does he has been on strike for almost a month.
"There’s nothing moving," they're waiting for me to die. In any case I won't stop until my last breath. I have my whole life here, I was 12 when I arrived here. "
He is the father of a baby a few months old, whose birth he was unable to attend, being in a closed center.
The doctor told him: "It’s your choice, it’s your problem. You want to die, you are going to die.
It is easy for the authorities to reverse responsibility in cases of hunger strikes, and to blame the strikers for the consequences on their health. These discourses make the political choices that lead to these situations invisible. When a person has no choice but to accept uprooting, removal from loved ones, return to a country where they are in danger... or to fight at the risk of one's life, one cannot really speak of choice.
https://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/greves-de-la-faim-au-127bis/#FortressEU #EU #Eupol #migration #Immigrants #humanRights #tortures #migrationStories
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#Belgium #hungerstrike 2/
"I have always worked, me and my wife. And today I am told “you enter a coffin. You're going to die, it's your choice”, the doctor told me.I asked “are you sure you're a doctor?” He said: “I'm a doctor to people like you”.
Recently, one of the striking detainees was transferred to solitary confinement in Merksplas, in an unheated dungeon; a new attempt to put pressure on him to stop his strike.
Some are determineds to continue their action of resistance until the end, despite a very worrying state of health.
"It’s dirty here," it's dirty. There are 60 of us for 2 toilets. It's never clean, it's disgusting.
Food is disgusting. I don't eat, but for those who do, it's disgusting.
I vomit blood, I pee blood.
I try to drink but I can't. It's my mind that's giving out. ""If they don't let me go, there will be a dead person here. What human rights here? I'm surrounded by barbed wire, it looks like I killed someone. "
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#Belgium #Hungerstrike 1/
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Several people are currently leading hunger strikes at the 127bis closed center. An entire wing has refused to eat ever since this Tuesday February 17. With their strike, the detainees want denounce the injustice of their detention, some of which sometimes extends over long durations (which can be up to 9 months or more than a year, 18 months being the maximum duration), and inhumane treatment by doctors as well as center staff.A concerned detainee, on strike for 15 days, testifies: Since I arrived here I have done the integration courses, I have done the language training, I have had C1, university level. I've never had any problems. A police officer came to his home to invite him to follow him to the police station and send him to a closed center. He quickly began a hunger strike after arriving in the center.
" I go out free or I go out dead. They say I'm a danger. For who? For what? Yesterday I passed out, my heart rate went up to 230. They don't care.The doctor makes fun of me, he laughs. He says “you're going to leave anyway, alive or in a coffin, one or the other.” "
