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🔥In active solidarity with all criminalised people, our struggle continues until they are all free, until the abolition of the facilitation laws and all the murderous borders they serve.
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#FreeThemAll
#DecriminalizeFacilitation
#AbolishCampsAndBorders
#SolidarityAndResistance

➡️But the goal is the same, to keep european borders as deadly as possible. Meanwhile, those who perpetrate violence continue to do so with impunity.
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⭕ Our comrades report from Lesvos, after 2 days of trial against Nora, Sara, Sean and other activists and volunteers.
Under the same charges, those of facilitation of unauthorised entry, people on the move and those who stand in solidarity with them are criminalized by state actors.
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Das #Urteil gegen die zwei geflüchteten Männer ist gefallen- in 30 Minuten wurden sie zu lebenslangen Haftstrafen verurteilt- nur weil sie ihr Recht, Asyl zu suchen, wahrgenommen haben. Ein Skandal, der in Griechenland Alltag ist. Gemeinsam mit @de-criminalize.eu unterstützen wir die Betroffenen.
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Thread über das #Gerichtsverfahren gegen 16 Seenotrettungs-Aktivist:innen auf #Lesbos. Darunter Sean, Sara und Nassos. Leben retten ist kein Verbrechen! #freethemall 1/x

Fern von fast jeglicher Berichterstattung finden auf #Kreta "Gerichtsverfahren" gegen sog. #Schleuser statt. Menschen auf der Flucht, die zu hunderten Jahren Haft verurteilt werden, weil sie Boote lenkten.

Julia Winkler von @de-criminalize.bsky.social: ⬇️
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❗This is white supremacy in action.

A brief report from yesterday’s court session in Crete, where I was present together with and for @de-criminalize.bsky.social.
People were sentenced to 355 years, and also minors were imprisoned.

Stop the criminalization of migration!
#FreeTheBoys #FreeThemAll

👉Seeking asylum is not a crime. It is a fundamental human right.
👉European governments should stop criminalising people seeking safety. Instead, they should start holding accountable those who enforce inhumane and violent policies.

From War to Prison: The Criminalization of Sudanese Refugees in Greece 14.11.25, 7pm. Vierte Welt, Berlin. This event will explore the situation of Sudanese war refugees imprisoned in Greece, the ongoing war in Sudan, how European smuggling laws are used to criminalize m...

When: 14.11.25, 7pm
Where: Vierte Welt, Adalbertstraße 96, 10999 Berlin

Event by de:criminalize – Sudan Uprising Germany – Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

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Panel:
- Mustafa Ahmed & Eirini Tsilafaki, 50outofmany & Mataris Athens
- Ibrahim Izzeldeen, Sudan Uprising Germany
- Julia Winkler, de:criminalize
- Moderation: Hanaa Hakiki, ECCHR

We will also hear directly from some of the boys via video and audio messages.

We will speak about the situation of Sudanese war refugees imprisoned in Greece, the ongoing war in Sudan, how European smuggling laws are used to criminalize migration and justify mass incarceration and the colonial continuities that underpin these injustices and systematic violence today.

Their lays bare the continuum of neocolonial violence: barely adults, they fled a brutal war fueled by imperialist and geopolitical interests, survived Libya's EU-funded detention industry – only to be punished with prison in Europe for facilitating their own and others' arrival and survival.

In Greece, more than 300 people from Sudan – mostly aged 15 to 21 – are imprisoned. Some have already been sentenced; others are in pre-trial detention.

They face decades or life in prison.

Their “crime”? Steering a boat or taking on other tasks during their own flight.

Von Hölle zu Hölle - ak analyse & kritik Der Krieg in Sudan zwingt vor allem »wehrfähige« Teenager zur Flucht – für viele von ihnen endet die Reise in griechischen Gefängnissen

»Wir sind nur Menschen, die überleben wollen«, schreibt er in einem Brief an die Gruppe de:criminalize aus dem Gefängnis. Hunderte Jugendliche landen direkt in europäischen Knästen, nachdem sie dem Krieg in #Sudan überlebt haben. Wir unterstützen sie in ihren Verfahren.
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Von Hölle zu Hölle - ak analyse & kritik Der Krieg in Sudan zwingt vor allem »wehrfähige« Teenager zur Flucht – für viele von ihnen endet die Reise in griechischen Gefängnissen

Auf der Flucht vor dem Krieg im #Sudan landen viele Jugendliche in griechischen Gefängnissen – kriminalisiert, weil sie Schutz suchen. Gemeinsam mit unseren Partner:innen @de-criminalize.bsky.social unterstützen wir sie durch den Fonds für Bewegungsfreiheit. 1/2
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‘twas a great and very insightful session, thanks!

We shared stories of those imprisoned for acts like steering a boat, and exchanged strategies of resistance, care, and collective strength in the face of this repression.

We are many and we are strong! Solidarity will win! 4/4

Together with comrades from Greece, Spain, Egypt, France & Italy we discussed how the so-called fight against smuggling has become a tool to legitimize the criminalization of migration and solidarity — feeding into wider systems of mass incarceration and border violence. 3/4

“Sabir,” once the common language of Mediterranean sailors, now symbolizes the need to rebuild a shared language grounded in civil society. 2/4

Yesterday we took part in the Festival Sabir in Palermo! 🌊✨
Born a year after the Lampedusa tragedy of Oct 3, 2013, Festival Sabir was created to give voice to the Mediterranean that refuses to accept deaths at the border and the criminalization of people on the move — and of solidarity itself. 1/4

Hoe Griekenland dehumaniseert:

These arrests and trials are disguised as “fighting crime,” but in truth are designed to deter, to scapegoat, and to produce statistics.

We will keep fighting — inside and outside the courtroom —
until this arbitrary and racist criminalisation finally ends! 5/5

We are relieved they had strong legal defence and that the sentence wasn’t as extreme as the prosecution requested.

However, it is deeply troubling that people face completely different outcomes: some are acquitted, while others receive sentences of 10 years or more for exactly the same thing. 4/5

Thanks to the work of our lawyer, however, the court accepted several mitigating circumstances.

Both were sentenced to 10 years filakisi — filakisi meaning early release is possible after 2/5 of the time (~4 years), which can be further reduced if they study or work in prison. 3/5

Unlike courts in Heraklion or Samos, the court in Chania has never recognised that asylum seekers must not be criminalised for steering boats.

Yesterday was no different.

The prosecution showed no understanding of the reality faced by people escaping war and demanded the harshest sentence. 2/5

Yesterday, 22.10.25, the trial of Nourdeen & Mohamad, two 20-year-olds from Sudan, took place in Chania, Crete.

They faced a sentence of multiple decades for “facilitation of unauthorized entry” of 55 other people — because they were steering the boat. 1/5

Yes, there are shitty smugglers — just as there are bad landlords or taxi drivers — but smuggling as such is a service made necessary by the criminalization of migration. And for that very reason, it is being targeted — not, as authorities often claim, in order to "protect" people on the move. 7/7

ATTENTION: The problem at hand isn’t simply that the “wrong people” are being arrested.

By adopting this line of argument, we imply that there is a right way to apply these laws — and that the laws themselves are legitimate. 6/7

In a perverse act of victim-blaming, he was charged with “smuggling resulting in death” — by the very same states that force people onto these dangerous routes in the first place. 5/7