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

Speech on Rally at Jungfernstieg August 21^st 2022

It’s been 6 months and we are still on the same topic. What is our status? Have we really escaped the war just to meet another kind of war ahead of us? It’s been 6 month since we left Ukraine in an attempt to escape the war and seek help in Germany, just like many Ukrainians. I have friends who are settled and are not passing through what we, as 3^rd world nationals, face on a daily basis; the uncertainty, the threats to leave the country, the discrimination we face at the immigration office. They are taking our passports and forcing us into asylum.

We are not asylum seekers, we are refugees of war just like the Ukrainians but I don’t see any of them being forced into asylum. We are students just like the Ukrainians. We invested into the Ukraine. We studied there. We worked there. We have memories there. Our livelihood and properties has been destroyed just like theirs. The Ukrainians came looking for help from Germany, just like us. Were we wrong to believe that we could find help within the borders of Germany?

Initially we were given 3 months to stay and for most of us we used that time to recuperate and get back ourselves; due to the trauma we faced while fleeing the war. Some of us are still struggling actively to move pass the horror we faced simply because of the colour of our skin. We will never forget. It has become a vivid reminder that we will always be treated differently; picked last while fleeing by train, picked last at the border and abandoned under freezing cold. Some even had to witness the loss of friends but no one cared for us because we were not or rather, we didn’t fall under the criteria that are required to be let in.

Even though we are not indestructible nor invincible to the bombs that fell through the sky not knowing or caring or even able to differentiate if it was a 3^rd country national under the roofs it tore through or a Ukrainian; If it was a 3rd country national in the streets walking while air strikes were launched from the sky or not. Even though we faced the same experiences, we were picked last.

Finally we got through the border thinking we were safe and can now resume our lives, and build from scratch what we lost due to the war both physically and mentally. But little did we know we will also be picked last. The cycle never ends so it seems. Germany promised no discrimination but that is the exact thing we met. We are not given a fair opportunity to integrate into the system here. They say they want to help all but the officers we meet at the immigration say otherwise. Some of us were given a 6 months period to reach German language level C1. We were told to get an admission in schools, but also there we need at least a B2 to get one, depending on what you want to study.

Some of us were studying to become engineers, doctors, IT specialists, even footballers in Ukraine. We would like to continue as that but it is impossible because the 6 months is not enough to meet the language requirement.

And 10,000 euros? From where? How?

We are refugees of war. Our accounts are frozen. We lost properties and money in the war. Our parents sacrificed so much to get us to Ukraine. School agent stole from us. So how can we produce that sort of money again and again?

Are you asking the Ukrainians for 10,000euros in block accounts?

No!

Ukrainian national refugees are given a fair chance to integrate. We just want to be given the same chance – or at least a fair enough chance. 6 month is too little a time to get C1 and admissions from a university, which expects the same preconditions from us. We need at least 1 year and 6 months to achieve these language criteria. The 10,000 euros is an impossible task too. Why say all will be given fair chance and then put up impossible demands? We need the passports that have been seized from our colleagues to be returned immediately and those that have been told to leave Germany, we need those decisions retracted. We need integration programs that are available to our fellow refugees of war, the Ukrainians.

We don’t want to sacrifice our dreams of being professionals in our field of study or the professions that we were chasing in Ukraine.

Don’t ask us to sacrifice our dreams.

We will learn the language.

We will work.

We are assets and we will become assets to you. Just give us a fighting chance.

We won’t give up our dreams. You don’t ask Ukrainians to give up theirs so why should we give up ours?

When you threaten us in these manners, you threaten our dreams but we will not give up!

We demand from the German Government to give us a fighting chance as they provide to the Ukrainians without any further questions!

Thank you.

GERECHTIGKEIT – Justice for Johanna De Souza

München, Bayern, Deutschland April 2022 …

Schon wieder starb eine Schwarze Schwester in einem deutschen Psychiatrie-Krankenhaus …
Schon wieder erfolgte eine Zwangsbehandlung, die tödlich endete …
Schon wieder wurden die Beschwerden der Patientin über die starken Nebenwirkungen der Zwangsmedikation nicht ernst genommen …
Schon wieder wurden die Angehörigen nicht unmittelbar über die Zwangsbehandlung, die Notfallverlegung in ein Herzzentrum und den Tod der Patientin informiert …
Schon wieder soll ein „Herzinfarkt“ für den Tod der 34-jährigen Patientin verantwortlich sein …

Mit tiefer Trauer gibt die BLACK COMMUNITY den Tod von Schwester Johanna De Souza bereits am 22. April 2022 in München bekannt. Johanna wäre am 30. Mai 2022 35 Jahre alt geworden, durfte diesen Geburtstag nach einer tödlichen Zwangsbehandlung in der kbo-Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Nord allerdings nicht mehr erleben.

Johanna wurde in dieser Psychiatrie seit Anfang April stationär behandelt. Sie beschwerte sich im Verlauf ihrer Behandlung mehrfach über die starken Nebenwirkungen der ihr verabreichten Psychopharmaka und bat ihre Mutter „Bitte hol mich hier raus – die bringen mich sonst um!“. Ihrer Mutter wurde mehrfach verweigert, ihre Tochter zu besuchen, immer weil Johanna angeblich „schlafen“ würde. Einmal drohte ihr die Stationsärztin sogar, dass sie die Polizei rufen würde, wenn die Mutter nicht einfach freiwillig gehen würde. Die Mutter wandte sich am 21. April 2022 an ihren Cousin und dessen deutsche Frau und bat um Mithilfe bei der Intervention an der Klinik. Am 22. April 2022 erhielt die Ehefrau des Cousinss auf telefonische Nachfrage in der Klinik die Antwort, dass Johanna in der Toilette „zusammengebrochen“ sei und in das Herzzentrum „verlegt“ wurde.
Als die Mutter ihre Tochter noch am selben Tag im Herzzentrum aufsuchte, war diese bereits tot, aber noch an die maschinelle „Lebenserhaltung“ angeschlossen. Die Maschinen wurden am 23. April 2022 abgestellt, da ein „Multiorganversagen mit Blutgerinnseln im ganzen Körper“ vorlag. Die Ärzt*innen im Herzzentrum konnten keine genaueren Auskünfte erteilen, da Johanna ohne Arztbrief aus der Psychiatrie notverlegt worden war.

In der Rechtsmedizin der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München wurde eine Autopsie durchgeführt, deren Sektionsprotokoll für die Angehörigen bis heute noch nicht einsehbar ist. Die Kriminalpolizei teilte auf Anfrage mit, dass als „natürliche Todesursache“ ein „Herzinfarkt“ angegeben worden sei. Die Familie wurde seitens der Ermittlungsbehörden nicht über die Freigabe des Leichnams und deren Aufbewahrungsort informiert.

Am 5. Mai 2022 fand ein Gespräch mit den Hinterbliebenen in der verantwortlichen Psychiatrie-Klinik statt, bei dem die Fragen der Familie unbeantwortet blieben, weil sich die Ärzt*innen auf ihre „medizinische Schweigepflicht“ zu den Umständen der Behandlung und des Todes von Johanna beriefen.

Wir unterstützen die Familie De Souza in ihrer Forderung nach juristischer Aufklärung der Todesumstände inklusive einer unabhängigen Zweitautopsie und bitten Euch um die Verbreitung und Beteiligung an der dafür bereits eingerichteten GoFundMe-Kampagne:

SPENDEN auf https://www.gofundme.com/f/johanna-de-souza

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL!       #JusticeForJohannaDeSouza

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JUSTICE FOR JOHANNA DE SOUZA

Munich, Bavaria, Germany April 2022 …

Yet again, a Black nurse died in a German psychiatric hospital …
Yet again, coercive treatment took place that ended fatally …
Yet again, the patient’s complaints about the severe side effects of the forced medication were not taken seriously …
Yet again, the patient’s relatives were not immediately informed about the forced treatment, the emergency transfer to a cardiac center and the death of the patient …
Yet again, a „heart attack“ is said to be responsible for the death of a 34-year-old patient …

It is with deep sadness that BLACK COMMUNITY has to announce the death of Sister Johanna De Souza as early as April 22, 2022 in Munich, Germany. Johanna would have turned 35 years old on May 30, 2022, but was not allowed to experience this birthday after a fatal forced treatment in the kbo-Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy North.

Johanna had been treated as an inpatient in this psychiatric clinic since the beginning of April. During the course of her treatment, she complained several times about severe side effects of the psychotropic drugs administered to her and begged her mother, „Please get me out of here – or else they gonna kill me!“
Her mother was refused to visit her daughter several times, always because Johanna was supposedly „asleep.“ Once, the ward doctor even threatened her that she would call the police on her if the mother would not simply leave voluntarily. On April 21, 2022, the mother turned to her cousin and his German wife for help in intervening at the clinic. On April 22, 2022, the cousin’s wife received a response to a telephone inquiry at the clinic that Johanna had „collapsed“ in the restroom and had been „transferred“ to the Heart Center of Munich.
When her mother immediately went to see her daughter at the Heart Center, Johanna was already dead but still on machine „life support.“ The machines were turned off on April 23, 2022, due to „multiple organ failure involving blood clots throughout the whole body“. The doctors at the Heart Center were unable to provide more detailed information, as Johanna had been transferred from the psychiatric clinic without any doctor’s note.

An autopsy was performed at the forensic medicine department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, the protocol of which is still today not available to the relatives. On request, the criminal investigation department stated that the „natural cause of death“ was a „heart attack“. The family was neither informed by the investigating authorities about the release of the body nor about its actual location after autopsy.

On May 5, 2022, a meeting with the bereaved family took place at the psychiatric clinic responsible, during which the family’s questions remained unanswered because the doctors invoked their „medical confidentiality“ regarding the circumstances of Johanna’s treatment and death.

We support the De Souza family in their demand for legal clarification of the circumstances of the death of Johanna, including an independent second autopsy, and ask you to spread the word and participate in the GoFundMe-campaign that has already been set up for this purpose:

PLS DONATE at https://www.gofundme.com/f/johanna-de-souza

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL!        #JusticeForJohannaDeSouza

Solidarity funds to support Valérie’s family

Solidaritätsfonds zur Unterstützung der Familie von Valérie

WE ARE AFRICAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND REFUGEES OF THE UKRAINE WAR

Like millions of Ukrainian citizens we were forced to flee for our lives due to the war in Ukraine since February 2022 – we are refugees of this war and had to leave behind our belongings, our houses and flats, our studies and other ways of peaceful living in Ukraine as well as our investments in and fees for our future education and perspectives – some of us were separated from friends and loved ones and some even had to witness them being killed violently …

Unlike those millions of Ukrainian citizens many of us have been discriminated against all the flight way long – we have been excluded and even forced out of public transportation, we have been picked up and set out in remote forests, we have been held back at the borders from leaving the war-torn country without shelter from freezing temperatures, some of us have been dying unprotected from the cold at night and day, we were immediately told at the EU borders to return back to our respective countries of origin without regard to given situations and without access to refugee protection measures …

The EU-Council was very fast to announce that Ukrainian citizens will be granted unequivocal protection inside EU territories including unconditional access to social and medical care, work and education under temporary protection for refugees of war. Later on the same EU-Council even went on to announce that „ALL PEOPLE, who are fleeing war will be granted protection from and access to the EU, health, education, labor and residence – regardless of their nationality, ethnicity or skin color“ …

Despite this actually unambiguous statement, there were immediate exclusions from exactly this unconditional protection status for refugees of war, formulated along exactly those lines of nationality, ethnicity and skin color from the very same speakers of the EU-Council for those refugees of war who do not hold Ukrainian citizenship otherwise a Ukrainian permanent residence or have spouses of one of the 2 first categories …

What we demand:

According to the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Geneva Conventions and Protocols, the European Convention on Human Rights and other subsequent international treaties, declarations, codes and programs of action that EU countries are party in

WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE PROTECTION AND EQUALITY OF TREATMENT!

We appeal to the German government that the unprecedented decision to grant immediate temporary protection to ALL those who call Ukraine their home is now being translated into a practice of equality.

For all of us Ukraine has been our home and the center of our lives.

All of us have invested substantial funds and efforts as to enable their studies or respective ways of life in Ukraine and all of us had to leave behind considerable belongings, properties and deposits in uncertainty of probable loss or destruction by bombing, looting or to state of emergency laws. Also from that point of view we are in no way different from other refugees of the ongoing war in Ukraine. 

How do we feel?

After walking for days on end and having to experience segregation, racism, hunger, abuse and violence at the borders as well as separation from families and loved ones, with parents and little children being affected and exposed to harsh weather conditions and the experiences of destruction of documents, financial losses, educational losses, we now face burdensome uncertainty about our future. We are afraid and have anxiety. The trauma haunts us all. Some of us have problems sleeping, some of us have flash backs or strong reactions to unexpected noises. The war has affected us all. We do not know how our future will be. We start to wonder if we should go to another country …

We do not know if we will ever be accepted here …

Should we go or should we stay …

We arrived in Germany to again face unequal treatment based on our nationality, ethnicity and skin color as compared to people of Ukrainian citizenship, who were treated warmly and differently. While the German Minister Interior stated on March 3, 2022 “Third-country nationals who have been living in Ukraine with a regular residence status are also not required to go through an asylum procedure”, the German directive on how to address our specific situation of March 4, 2022 even falls short of the EU operational guidelines to the Temporary Protection under Article 5 of the EU Council Directive 2001/55 by excluding various groups of Ukrainian residence holders from temporary protection under section 24 of the German Residence Act, who would lose their actual accomplishments and their future by “going back to ‘their’ countries”, which they have left for still unchanged true reasons.

We need temporary protection and clarity now!

We Africans and other non-European nationals from Ukraine are neither responsible for nor part of the ongoing geo-political war but equivalently afflicted. We got into the same situation of war – both NON EUROPEAN CITIZENS & UKRAINIANS alike – and we should be given the same rights and treatment because none of us planned this war and the impact and trauma affects all of us. Bombs and bullets do not discriminate amongst their victims! And thus protection should be the same for all of those who had and lost their homes in Ukraine when war broke out. Many of our friends or international student colleagues have even met the dramatic decision to rather stay back in war-torn Ukraine than to flee to EU countries that refuse to provide protection for them.

Non-Ukrainian nationals from the war in Ukraine arriving in Germany have been facing very different terms of treatment – both in different federal states and cities but also within the very same city throughout time and different facilities. While some received so called “Fictitious Certificates” for 1 year without further procedures others were pressurized to submit an asylum application with their finger prints registered and passports seized. Again others were given a so called “Duldung” including the threat of deportation.

We call for immediate and unobstructed Temporary Protection, including the Right to Study, the Right to Work and equivalent access to social benefits i.e. accommodation, finances, medical care and social welfare as Ukrainian refugees of war. Those of us that have been forced to apply for asylum due to lack of information and administrative inconsistencies should have the asylum application withdrawn and given back their passports.

We ask to be given valid and consistent information for clarity.

Germany should take an example from other EU countries that offer protection and opportunities for studies to ALL. It is basically a shame to Germany for stepping back in regard to its responsibilities.

EQUALITY IS A UNIVERSAL RIGHT – NOT A PRIVILEGE TO SELECT!

EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT – NOT PRIVILEGE BY CHOICE!

Contact #AfricansFromUA c/o ARRiVATi – Community Care Network – mailto:info@arivati.de

Speakers:

Sister Omwenga +4915216149012

Brother Enyia +4915781315784

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 [email protected].

1^st 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

2^nd Signatories

Park Fiction Komitee

wir möchten Euch darüber informieren, dass ein Strafverfahren gegen Sista Oloruntoyin von der Black Community Coalition of Justice & Self-Defence

am 03. Februar 2022, um 09:00 Uhr,

im Gerichtssaal 176

Amtsgericht Hamburg stattfinden wird

(Strafjustizgebäude/Criminal Justice Building, Sievekingplatz 3)
Sista Oloruntoyin (LaToya Manly-Spain) muss sich wegen des Vorwurfs der „Abhaltung einer verbotenen oder nicht angemeldeten Kundgebung und Demonstration trotz Verbots oder polizeilicher Aufforderung zur Auflösung nach § 26 Versammlungsgesetz“ verantworten. Am 5. Juni 2020 versammelten sich rund 5000 Demonstranten aus Solidarität vor dem US-Konsulat in Hamburg, um ein starkes Signal in die Welt zu senden. Wir sehen die juristische Kriminalisierung von Sista Oloruntoyin als einen Angriff auf die Schwarze Community in Hamburg und alle Protestierenden. Wir rufen alle zivilgesellschaftlichen Gruppen und Organisationen zur aktiven Unterstützung und Solidarität auf.

Politische Aktionen gegen rassistische Polizeigewalt dürfen nicht kriminalisiert werden. Die CoVid-Pandemie darf nicht dazu missbraucht werden, politische Aktionen zu unterdrücken. Es wird ein öffentliches Gerichtsverfahren sein. Die Zahl der Besucher wird entsprechend den geltenden Corona-Beschränkungen und der Größe des Gerichtssaals begrenzt sein. Allerdings wird es auch draußen einen aktiven Protest geben.

Um den Gerichtssaal zu betreten, muss man keine Dokumente vorlegen. Handys und Kameras sind nicht erlaubt – Papier und Stifte zur Dokumentation hingegen schon.

GERECHTIGKEIT FÜR FLOYD! -STOPPT DAS TÖTEN VON SCHWARZEN! – STOPPT DEN RASSISTISCHEN TERRORISMUS IN DEN USA! Solidarität mit der Familie von George Floyd und mit den Familien aller unbewaffneten Schwarzen, die von staatlichen Agenten und bewaffneten Zivilisten in den USA und weltweit getötet wurden – TOUCH ONE! TOUCH ALL! – BLACK LIVES MATTER!

Stoppt die Verunglimpfung von Schwarzen Aktivistinnen!

Kommt zur Gerichtsverhandlung und vor das Gerichtsgebäude und zeigt eure Solidarität in und mit der Black Community in Hamburg gegen die repressive Hamburger Rechtsprechung!

Unsere Solidarität gegen ihre Repression!

Politische Aktionen gegen rassistische Polizeigewalt dürfen nicht kriminalisiert werden!

Friedlicher Protest ist kein Verbrechen und Organisator*innen von Versammlungen sind keine Erfüllungsgehilfen von polizeilichen Entscheidungen!

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL – Freispruch für Sista Oloruntoyin!

Das Landgericht Hamburg hat einen Strafbefehl gegen Sista Oloruntoyin (LaToya Manly-Spain) von der Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defence erlassen, die als eine der Organisatorinnen und Leiterinnen der „Justice For Floyd“, #BlackLivesMatter Protestkundgebung am 5. Juni 2020 vor dem US-Konsulat die Verantwortung übernommen hatte.

Sollte sie für schuldig befunden werden, drohen ihr 2 Monate Haft.

Sie wird nun öffentlich vor Gericht gestellt am

3. Februar 2022 um 9:00 Uhr

Gerichtssaal 176 des Hamburger Strafjustizgebäudes am Sievekingplatz 3

Wir versammeln uns am 3. Februar 2022 ab 8:00 Uhr vor dem Strafjustizgebäude am Sievekingplatz.

HINTERGRUND

Am 25. Mai 2020 wurde Bruder George Floyd in Minneapolis von dem Polizeibeamten Derek Chauvin vor laufenden Kameras brutal ermordet. 9 Minuten und 25 Sekunden lang kniete er sich in den Nacken von Bruder George Floyd und raubte ihm Atem und Leben. Das grausame Video hat nicht nur Schwarze Menschen weltweit traumatisiert, sondern auch internationale Proteste auf allen Kontinenten ausgelöst. Die Hamburger Solidaritätsproteste fanden nach laufenden Tagen der Massenproteste in den USA am 5. Juni mit 5.000 Teilnehmer*innen vor dem US-Konsulat am Alsterufer und am 6. Juni 2020 vor dem Rathaus und am Jungfernstieg mit insgesamt 15.000 Menschen statt.

Die Protestkundgebung am 5. Juni 2020 wurde mit voraussichtlich 5.000 Teilnehmern organisiert und angemeldet. Die Polizei ließ nach ihrer Auslegung der Hamburger Korona-Schutzverordnung maximal 250 Personen zu. Die Black Community, afrikanische Organisationen, Schwarze politische Vereinigungen und die Hamburger Zivilgesellschaft schlossen sich erfolgreich der weltweiten Empörung gegen rassistische Polizeigewalt an – trotz Corona an zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Tagen!

Diese globalen Massenproteste in Solidarität mit der Familie von George Floyd und der weltweiten Black Lives Matter-Bewegung trugen maßgeblich zu einem Paradigmenwechsel im Strafprozess bei: Die beteiligten Polizeibeamten wurden umgehend entlassen, der Mörder wurde inzwischen in allen Anklagepunkten für schuldig befunden und ist verurteilt. Dieser Weg der Rechenschaftspflicht und Gerechtigkeit für ein von einem Staatsdiener brutal getötetes Schwarzes Leben war und ist eine außergewöhnliche Ausnahme von der peinlichen Staatsräson mit systematischer Straflosigkeit für die Mörder Schwarzer Leben und konnte nur durch organisierten zivilen Ungehorsam und weltweite Massenproteste durchgesetzt werden, wie sie am 5. Juni 2020 auch in Hamburg stattfanden.

Die repressive Haltung der Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg, die nur eine Schwarze Aktivistin für den entscheidenden und angemessenen antirassistischen zivilen Ungehorsam ins Visier nimmt und strafrechtlich verfolgt, ist ein Angriff auf unsere Schwarzen/Afrikanischen/Migranten-Communities. Dass dieselbe Staatsanwaltschaft alle Anklagepunkte gegen die verantwortlichen Mitarbeiter des UKE-Krankenhauses, die für die Ermordung von Bruder Tonou Mbobda am 21. April 2019 verantwortlich sind, verworfen hat, zeigt ihre rassistische Voreingenommenheit und die Perversion von Werten und Gesetzen durch diese Institution. Die Fälle von Bruder Tonou Mbobda, Bruder Yaya Jabbie und Bruder Achidi John, die alle von staatlicher Seite oder in Zusammenarbeit mit staatlichen Institutionen getötet wurden, zeigen genau denselben systemischen Rassismus und die strukturelle rassistische Straflosigkeit, die die Notwendigkeit für die antirassistischen Massenproteste vom 5. und 6. Juni 2020 überhaupt erst geschaffen haben.

Wir rufen daher die Hamburger Zivilgesellschaft auf, sich erneut zu solidarisieren – dieses Mal mit der Black Community in Hamburg und Sista Oloruntoyin vor Gericht und in der Öffentlichkeit!

Kommt zur Gerichtsverhandlung und vor das Gericht und zeigt Eure Solidarität gegen die repressive Hamburger Rechtsprechung!

Unsere Solidarität gegen ihre Repression!

Politische Aktionen gegen rassistische Polizeigewalt dürfen nicht kriminalisiert werden!

Friedlicher Protest ist kein Verbrechen!

Black Lives Matter! – Auch die von Schwarzen politischen Aktivist*innen im Kampf gegen eine rassistische Polizei-Justiz!

3. Februar 2022 um 9:00 Uhr

Gerichtssaal 176 des Hamburger Strafjustizgebäudes am Sievekingplatz 3

Wir versammeln uns am 3. Februar 2022 ab 8:00 Uhr vor dem Strafjustizgebäude am Sievekingplatz.

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL – Freispruch für Sista Oloruntoyin!

This is to inform that there will be a criminal court case against Sista Oloruntoyin of the Black Community Coalition of Justice & Self-Defence

on 03. February 2022, at 09:00 am,

at courtroom 176

Amtsgericht Hamburg

(Strafjustizgebäude/Criminal Justice Building, Sievekingplatz 3)

Sista Oloruntoyin (LaToya Manly-Spain) faces criminal charges for allegedly “holding a prohibited or unregistered manifestation and rally in spite of ban or police order to disperse in accordance with Paragraph 26 of the law on assemblies”. About 5000 protesters joined in solidarity to send a strong signal across the globe. We are seeing this juridical criminalisation of Sista Oloruntoyin as an attack on the Black Community in Hamburg and all protesters. We call on all civil society groups and organisations to come out in active support and solidarity.

Political action against racist police brutality should not be criminalised. The CoVid Pandemic cannot be abused to repress political action. It will be a public court case. The amount of visitors will be limited according to current Corona restrictions and the size of the courtroom. However there will be an active protest also outside.

To enter the court, one does not have to show any documents. Mobile phones or cameras are not allowed – but paper and pens for documentation are.

JUSTICE FOR FLOYD! -STOP KILLING BLACKS! – STOP THE RACIAL TERRORISM IN THE USA! Solidarity with the family of George Floyd and with the families of all unarmed Blacks killed by agents of state and armed civilians in the USA and Worldwide – TOUCH ONE! TOUCH ALL! – BLACK LIVES MATTER!

Stop the scape-goating of Black women activists!

Come to the court hearing and in front of the courthouse and show your solidarity within and together with the Black Community in Hamburg against the repressive Hamburg jurisprudence!

Our solidarity against their repression!

Political actions against racist police brutality should not be criminalised!

Peaceful protest is not a crime and organizers of assemblies are not vicarious agents of police decisions!

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL – Acquittal for Sista Oloruntoyin!

The Hamburg District Court has issued a criminal order against Sista Oloruntoyin (LaToya Manly-Spain) of the Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defence, who had taken over responsibility as one of the organizers and leaders of the “Justice For Floyd”, ‘BlackLivesMatter protest rally on June 5, 2020 in front of the US Consulate.

If found guilty, she is facing the danger of 2 months imprisonment.

She will now be publicly tried on

February 3, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom 176 of the Hamburg Criminal Justice Building at Sievekingplatz 3

We will gather in front of the Criminal Justice Building at Sievekingplatz on FEBRUARY 3. 2022 starting at 8:00 am.

BACKGROUND

On May 25, 2020, Brother George Floyd was brutally murdered with cameras filming in Minneapolis by police officer Derek Chauvin, who spent an agonizing 9 minutes and 25 seconds kneeling on the neck of Brother George Floyd, taking away his breath and life. The gruesome video not only traumatized Black people worldwide, but also triggered international protests on all continents. The Hamburg protests in solidarity took place after running days of mass protests in the U.S. on June 5 with 5,000 participants* in front of the U.S. Consulate at Alsterufer and on June 6, 2020 in front of Rathaus -City Hall and on Jungfernstieg with a total of 15,000 people.

The June 5, 2020 protest rally was organized and registered on  with an expected 5,000 participants. The police allowed a maximum of 250 people according to their interpretation of the Hamburg’s Corona Protection Ordinance. The Black Community, African organisations, Black political associations and Hamburg civil society successfully joined in the global outrage against racist police brutality – despite Corona for two consecutive days!

This global mass protests in solidarity with the George Floyd family and the Black Lives Matter-movement worldwide strongly contributed to a shift of paradigm in the criminal case: the police officers involved were fired promptly, and the killer was meanwhile found guilty of all charges and is sentenced. This course of accountability and justice for a Black life being brutally taken by an officer of state was and still is an extraordinary exception from the painful reason of state with systematic impunity for the killers of Black lives and could only be pushed through by means of organised civil disobedience and worldwide mass protests as took place on June 5 in Hamburg.

The repressive mind set of the public prosecution of Hamburg in targeting and prosecuting just one Black activist woman for the crucial and appropriate anti-racist civil disobedience is an attack on our Black/ African /Migrant Communities  while the same prosecution office turned down all charges against those responsible staff of the UKE hospital responsible for the killing of Brother Tonou Mbobda on April 21 in 2019 exposes the racial bias and perversion of values and laws of this institution. The cases of Brother Tonou Mbobda, Brother Yaya Jabbie and Brother Achidi John who all have been killed at the hands of state and or together with state institution display the very same systemic racism and structural racist impunity that generated the need for the very anti-racist mass protests of June 5 and 6 2020 in the first place.

We therefore call on Hamburg civil society and  to renew their solidarity once again – this time with the Black Community in Hamburg and  Sista Oloruntoyin in court and in public!

Come to the court hearing and in front of the courthouse and show your solidarity against the repressive Hamburg jurisprudence!

Our solidarity against their repression!

Political actions against racist police brutality should not be criminalised!

Peaceful protest is not a crime!

Black Lives Matter! – also that of Black political activists in the fight against a racist police justice!

Note:

February 3, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom 176 of the Hamburg Criminal Justice Building at Sievekingplatz 3

We will gather in front of the Criminal Justice Building at Sievekingplatz on February 3, 2022 starting at 8:00 am.

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL – Acquittal for Sista Oloruntoyin!

Online-Zoom | Sonnabend, 8. Mai 2021 | 19 – 21 Uhr

Alle Schwarzen und Afrikanischen Diaspora-Communities und Personen Afrikanischer Herkunft sind eingeladen, bei unserem virtuellen Community Connect im Kampf gegen Afrophobie (Anti-Schwarzen Rassismus) zusammenzuarbeiten und teilzunehmen. Wir möchten das Prinzip Community Connect reaktivieren, um unseren Kampf gegen Anti-Schwarzen Rassismus, Diskriminierung und Ausgrenzung gemeinsam besser zu koordinieren und zu organisieren. Die BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition stellt ihre Arbeit und die AG Anti-Schwarzer Rassimus ihren Forderungskatalog vor. Wir laden Schwarze Menschen, Organisationen und Initiativen ein, geimeinsam mit uns aktiv zu werden und unsere Kräfte zu bündeln.

Die BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition steht auf dem Standpunkt, dass Rassismus systemisch wirkt und Institutionen, Behörden und Medien, die ihn zulassen und nutzen, ihn bewusst verleugnen.

Ziele unseres Community Connect:
– Information über politische Aktionen, die durchgeführt wurden und werden
– Information über Treffen mit Regierungsvertretern und Behörden, die stattgefunden haben
– Vorstellung des „Forderungskatalog der AG Anti-Schwarzer Rassismus“
– Diskussion über die Menschenrechtssituation in unseren Communities, über Prioritäten und Anliegen

Wir laden ausdrücklich Schwarze Menschen zu dieser Diskussion ein und stellen die Perspektiven unserer verschiedenen Schwarzen und Afrikanischen Diaspora-Gemeinschaften in den Mittelpunkt.

Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter: [email protected]

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COMMUNITY CONNECT – united against Anti-Black and institutional racism

Online Zoom | Saturday, May 8, 2021 | 7 – 9 p.m.

All Black and African Diaspora communities and persons of African descent are invited to collaborate and participate in our virtual Community Connect in the fight against Afrophobia (anti-Black racism). We would like to reactivate the Community Connect principle to better coordinate and organize our fight against anti-Black racism, discrimination and exclusion together. The BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition will present its work and the AG Anti-Black Racism will present its list of demands. We invite Black people, organizations and initiatives to become active together with us and to join forces.

The BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition stands on the point of view that racism works systemically and institutions, authorities and media that use and execute it, deliberately deny it.

Goals of our Community Connect:

– To provide information about political actions that have been and are being taken

– Information about meetings with government representatives and authorities

– Presentation of the „Catalogue of Demands” of the Working Group on Anti-Black Racism.

– Discussion about the human rights situation in our communities, about priorities and concerns

We specifically invite Black people to this discussion and focus on the perspectives of our various Black and African Diaspora communities.

We kindly ask for registration under: [email protected]

2 years ago Brother Tonou Mbobda was murdered in the UKE-Hospital…

Since 2 years the UKE-Hospital has been disclaiming its responsibility for his violent death…

Since 2 years now, Hamburg’s public prosecutors have failed to adequately prosecute the obvious breaches of law, breaches of due diligence, and violations of policy….

Since 2 years now, the institution UKE-Hospital, the prosecuting authority public prosecutor’s office and the political leaders in the science committee have allied for a joint cover-up by stigmatizing, criminalizing and blaming the victim…

Since 2 years now, we as the Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense have been fighting together with the family and the Black Community Hamburg for the full and complete clarification of all circumstances that led to the violent death of Brother Tonou Mbobda… and we will not let this fight rest until the family receives the justice it deserves. The death of Brother Tonou Mbobda cannot and must not go unpunished and unpardoned!

We demand the indictment of those responsible in a due process of law to clarify all outstanding issues:

• Why was Tonou Mbobda’s cardiac muscle thickening not precautionarily clarified and diagnosed by a specialist cardiologist despite multiple conspicuous and pathologically marked ECG findings and despite the additional prescription of drugs with side effects on his heart?
• Why was the low potassium level determined by laboratory chemistry on admission not actively compensated, when it is known that low potassium levels can promote the occurrence of dangerous cardiac arrhythmias, especially in combination with the medication administered?
• How can it be that both the responsible physician and subsequently also the public prosecutor’s office and the attorney general’s office establish an alleged danger to others, although Tonou Mbobda never attacked or injured anyone in his entire lifetime, throughout his mental history and not on the day of his death?
• Why can the responsible physician have ordered the security service and not exercise medical supervision to ensure compliance with existing professional guidelines when they subsequently use physical force, and thus allow the security service to employ unprofessional and life-threatening techniques of violence against a patient, for which there was not even legal order issued yet?
• How can it be that the public prosecutor in charge commissions the contract for the forensic medical examination to the UKE-Hospital itself?
• Why was there no immediate forensic medical examination carried out to determine and document the injuries and consequences of the use of violent force despite the immediate police investigation and the explicit indication by a medical representative of the Black Community? Against forensic standards of investigation injuries were only documented 5 days later in the course of the autopsy.
• Why is a possible positional asphyxia (circulatory collapse in prone position with hands tied behind the back and additional respiratory restriction due to sitting up/kneeling of several persons) neither mentioned nor discussed in the autopsy report of Prof. Püschel, and how does the responsible public prosecutor Mahnke come to claim a completely unscientific „minimum exposure time“ of 25 minutes as a “condition” for such an event in front the scientific committee of parliament?
• How does the responsible public prosecutor Ogiermann of the Attorney General’s Office come to construct an allegedly avertable self-endangerment by a theoretically possible traffic accident, when there is no evidence at all for the necessary intention of the patient Tonou Mbobda to leave the clinic premises in the first place?
• How can the violations against the PsychKG Hamburg (missing legal basis), against the S3 guideline „To prevent coercion“, against the medical duty of care (omission of diagnosis and therapy of significant concomitant diseases) and against the right of self-determination of patients have been appropriately processed, if both the public prosecutor’s offices and the scientific committee prevent their clarification and naming by an irresponsible perpetrator-victim reversal, by criminalizing the person killed with the help of the protective claims of those actually responsible for the fatality and imputing a cynical „life-saving intention“ to the perpetrators of the violence, for which there is neither professional nor actual evidence?

Neither the UKE-Hospital, nor the city of Hamburg have so far personally apologized to the family or expressed their regrets to the bereaved.

The killing of Black people is part of the structural DNA of Hamburg, if only because the responsible law enforcement agencies have so far systematically legitimized it instead of filing charges. The „failure to recognize“ implicitly and explicitly racist behavior not only through unjustified and excessive violence, but also through failure to care and ignoring fundamental rights is an unspeakable continuity that feeds on the unreflective colonial roots of the German dominant society. It is an expression of an inhuman superiority mentality that the recognition of equal rights to life and self-determination is and can still be so systematically denied in 2021. We will not continue to stand idly by and watch the killing of Black lives and institutional violence against Black people in impunity, but we will do everything necessary to ensure that anti-Black racism in Hamburg, in Germany and beyond finally comes to an end!

Touch One – Touch ALL

Justice for Mbobda

Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense

Contact: [email protected]

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