Trial about Oury Jalloh in Dessau, Germany
by - 27.03.2007 21:05
On the 7th of January, 2006, Oury Jalloh was taken into custody by the Dessau Police, where he died a horrible death; burnt alive while his hands and feet were tied to the wall and floor. The mattress he was lying on was fire-proof. Oury Jalloh fled from Sierra Leone to Germany, he was 21 years old when he died.
BREAK THE SILENCE
CLARIFICATION, JUSTICE, RESTITUTION
How can a human being lose his life in a police cell, burnt alive, and the circumstances regarding his death remain a mystery two years later? The unanswered questions regarding the death of Oury Jalloh are as numerous as they are shocking.
On the 6th of May, 2005, the State Prosecutor of Dessau formally filed charges against two police officers, one for bodily harm resulting in death and the other for negligent homicide.
Nearly 2 years since Oury Jalloh's death and more than one and a half years after the accusation by the State Prosecutor the Court accepted to take on the case on 2nd January 2007. The court case started on March 27th in Dessau and will continue daily until March 30th.
An international committee of observers is attending the trial. Among the international observers:
* Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe, lawyer from Paris and author of “Weisse Barbarei” (La Férocité Blanche)
* Silas Nkanunu, lawyer from South Africa, founding member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers and of the Law Society of South Africa
* Suresh Grover, "Monitoring Group" in London, a leading agency in providing assistance and support to victims of racial harassment and domestic violence in Great Britain
* Silvia Luwadio-Ngeyisadila, sister of Dominique Kouamadio, who was killed by a policeman in April 2006 in Dortmund, the circumstances are unknown
* Wolf-Dieter Narr, founding member of Komitee fuer Grundrechte und Demokratie (Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy)
* Regina Kiwanuka, refugee from Uganda, lives in Nuernberg
Mariama Djombo Diallo, mother of Oury Jalloh, will also be present at the trial, together with her son, as a joint plaintiff from Guinea
Am 7. Januar 2005 verbrannte der Asylbewerber Oury Jalloh aus Sierra Leone in einer Zelle in einem Dessauer Polizeirevier. Jalloh floh im Jahre 2000 vor dem Bürgerkrieg nach Deutschland.
http://oury-jalloh.so36.net
http://www.prozessouryjalloh.de
http://www.oury-jalloh.tk
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WDR-Reportage "Tod in der Zelle":
http://www.wdr.de/tv/dokumentation/todinderzelle.html
http://www.thevoiceforum.org/dessau
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http://no-racism.net/article/1517