Following the information on the EU charter, deporting African sans-papiers to Africa from Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam, NL) due on the 15th, M2M has informed the detainees and called on activists to stage a protest against the collective deportation of African migrants from Europe. With Silence.

Sali is our man in Alphen and he has made all inmates aware of the upcoming collective deportation. Alphen will join Schiphol Oost to make a communication blockade: they will not say a word to the guards, the IND or any other authority. And Mamadou was deported to Chad, but he came back after the Chad authorities refused entry. He is now in Alphen too.
And the kitchen has been closed by the director of detention complex Alphen.

We choose Tuesday 14th of July, the French national day of freedom, equality and brotherhood to manifest our outrage at this EU-policy and our solidaity with the detained migrants.

Since February a group of some 40 detained migrants has organized various
protests, including a hungerstrike. The active support from outside gives them strength. Some of them have been released and feed us with fresh information on life in detention.

Together we have choosen the form of protest: a day of silence. The detainees will not speak with guards, security, immigration services and possibly also boycot refugee Council and lawyers. We have also informed collegues in Italy, France and Spain, in order to create a synchronized protest.

On Tuesday small groups of activists will stand at the gates and fences to salute the detainees. In silence, but visible.

Hearing, seeing, silence.

We ask you to phone and write to your local and national authorities to
demand information on this flight. And to write a letter of alert to the EU
commissioner of Human Rights.