An open letter signed by 256 organizations regarding the emergency situation in Greece is calling upon the government to withdraw the illegal and unconstitutional Emergency Legislative Decree. The letter ask to immediately stop returning people to states where their lives and freedom are at risk, to alleviate overcrowding on […]
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The situation in the CETI: packed together in complete panic by the coronavirus
Images taken from inside show how health and hygiene recommendations are not being respected. CGT Ceuta demands that sanitary protocols are followed. Isabel Jiménez / El Faro De Ceuta* Even though 105 residents of the Temporary Immigrant Detention Centre (CETI) left for the mainland last Friday, with the […]
The pandemic: a weapon?
Given the dimensions of its scope and its unpredictable evolution, the Coronavirus is now receiving the greatest worldwide media attention. It is difficult to add to what has already been said by governments and the media. However, two quite significant aspects can be focused on: the real origin of the pandemic and the benefit that some governments derive from it.
Militarisation, cynicism, lack of solidarity and cruelty towards immigrants
More than 20,000 migrants have died from 2014 to today as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Five years after the worst migratory crisis of recent history, violence is again becoming the answer to the arrival of thousands of people fleeing war and hunger.
Forbidden to forget (2): The ultraright and the increase in hate crime
Although the exact number of people tortured and murdered by Nazi forces is unknown, researchers say that more than six million Jews and innumerable prisoners of war, Gypsies, disabled people, homosexuals, communists, ethnic minorities and members of various religious groups were massacred. The horrors of the past return today to […]