"10, 25 Jahre Gefängnis werden wie Strafzettel für Falschparken ausgestellt."
#FreeThemAll #FreeTheBoys
Ähnliche Berichte von #Lesbos von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social von den Verfahren heute. @medico.de
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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
❗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
Support the the campaign for the release of Suleman and the many others currently detained. #FreeTheBoys
"For many Sudanese youth, flight was not a choice but the only path to survival. Yet escape has rarely meant safety." In this article, Ibrahim Izzeldeen highlights the European trend of criminalizing and incarcerating people on the move. migration-control.info/en/blog/from...
#FreeTheBoys
We fight for a world in which no one has to risk dangerous crossings, but can move freely. Until then, as long as people are forced into these journeys by Europe’s border regime, we will continue to fight against the criminalization of the actions that facilitate these journeys—and against the narrative that frames them as “crimes.”
We celebrate today’s victory with the four individuals from Sudan
—and we will keep fighting until everyone is free! 7/7
#FreeTheBoys #FreeThemAll #AllEyesOnCrete
den Migrierenden zuteilwird, die – zu Tausenden – vor Gericht gezerrt, inhaftiert und zu jahrelanger Haft verurteilt werden.
No one is free until everyone is free! 8/8
Foto oben aus Polen von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social
#H5 #AllEyesOnCrete #FreeTheBoys #SolidarityIsNotACrime
We will keep fighting with the boys and everyone else on trial for smuggling!
@de-criminalize.bsky.social @medico2.bsky.social
#FreeTheBoys #AllEyesOnCrete
image: Photo taken from above. You can see a cobblestone floor. In the upper left corner, you can see the legs of women dressed in black skirts sitting on a bench. In the upper right corner, some children playing in colourful clothing (pink, orange and yellow). text: "We send them our solidarity and strength as they are forced back into limbo and uncertainty. We will stand with them until all prisons fall! #FreeTheBoys"
👉🏼 The postponement of trials is an example of the systematic violence of an unjust legal system, which we have witnessed again today.
Who will give them back the years and days that European prison walls are taking away?
Each day is as another unjust day.
#FreeTheBoys
#FreeThemAll
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Rights and treaties meant to protect people mean nothing here. In its so-called ‘fight against migration,’ Europe once again creates a group of people denied even the right to have rights — in colonial continuity.
We demand freedom for Hani & all others imprisoned for smuggling!
#FreeTheBoys 8/8
Freedom for Hani Zakharia! Trial on 01.09.25 in Crete, Greece. The 17-year-old hoped to help his family survive. He, a child, was arrested instead and now faces years in prison - and lost his mother, who died of a panic attack after hearing the news. Logo of de:criminalize Image of a young boy sitting on a table.
#AllEyesOnCrete − Hani’s case is a particularly brutal example of the violence and injustice of anti-smuggling laws that punish people for seeking safety. These laws are the real crime, and a continuation of Europe’s colonial legacy. 1/8
#FreeTheBoys
We will be there with them! ✊
#FreeTheBoys #AllEyesOnCrete
We must create visibility & show solidarity!
➡️If you’re on Crete — come to the trial, stand with the boys, and show the court we are watching!
➡️If you’re anywhere else — share this post, spread the word, make noise for the boys and against this mass incarceration! 5/5
#AllEyesOnCrete #FreeTheBoys
Wahnsinnig glücklich über den heutigen Erfolg auf Kreta, wo erstmals ein Geflüchteter des Vorwurfs der Schleuserei freigesprochen wurde, eben weil er ein Geflüchteter ist.
Niom wird aus dem Gefängnis entlassen und kann endlich zu seiner Frau, die im achten Monat schwanger ist!
#FreeTheBoys
Today, first and foremost, we are happy for Niom, his partner, and their unborn child!
Thanks to everybody who supported Niom!
With your help, we can support more boys like him who are behind bars!
Together we fight! 4/4
#FreeTheBoys
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decriminalize: Acquittal for Niom! Niom will be able to welcome his child into the world! Heraklion, Crete. Image of Niom
🥳 In a completely unexpected turn, the court acquitted Niom today of all charges!
The court accepted the defence’s argument that, as an asylum seeker fleeing the war in Sudan, he must not be criminalised for steering the boat.
Of course, this is the only right decision to take. 1/4
#FreeTheBoys
Niom will be in court tomorrow!
The court of Heraklion, Crete, will decide whether or not to release him until trial to be there for the birth of his child!
#FreeTheBoys
…and the moment they arrive in Greece, they are arrested and imprisoned. #FreeTheBoys
🎧 If you want to hear from a local activist’s perspective about how’s the current situation on #Crete, listen to the latest episode of Radio Mytilene speaking with the great comrade Eleftheria/Thalassa of Solidarity; including the many “smuggling” arrests.
#FreeTheBoys
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1. Sept 2025: G., from Sudan, 20 years old: No lawyer 1. Sept 2025: M., from Sudan, 15 years old: No lawyer 1. Sept 2025: M., from Sudan, 19 years old: No lawyer Three Young Boys Don't Have A Lawyer Yet - But Their Trials Are Very Soon! de:criminalize
The boys continue to share new trial dates with us, as arrests of Sudanese teenagers happen almost daily.
Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to hire lawyers for around ten of them — but many others still have no legal support.
#FreeTheBoys
Yesterday we spoke together with @medico2.bsky.social about the absurd & brutal criminalisation of people on the move simply for migrating, in particular about the case of the Sudanese boys - and how we fight against it!
Thanks for the invitation to Mannheim @seebrueckema.bsky.social!
#FreeTheBoys
#FreeTheBoys! - Help Niom to get out of prison to be there for the birth of his child. Do you know a NGO or a private accommodation in Thessaloniki that could host the 19-year-old?
Niom is one of the many young Sudanese refugees who have been imprisoned in Greece—for steering the boat or taking on another task during the journey.
He's a medical student who escaped the war in Sudan together with his wife, who is now 8 months pregnant & will give birth soon. 1/7
#FreeTheBoys
#Free The Boys! Today in Chania, Crete: 16 Trials in Total. 13 Smuggling Trials. 30 Individuals Accused.
Today is another day in court in Chania, Crete.
13 of the 16 trials scheduled for today are smuggling trials – with a total of 30 defendants.
This is the ‘normality’: people charged with “smuggling” make up the second-largest group in Greek prisons – 90% of them are foreigners. 1/3
#FreeTheBoys
Sehr glücklich über den heutigen Erfolg - auch wenn Josua nie hätte verhaftet werden dürfen!
Es zeigt deutlich: gemeinsam können wir dieser Kriminalisierung etwas entgegensetzen!
#FreeTheBoys
de:criminalize: Acquittla for Josua! Heraklion, Crete. The Court accepted the defence's argument that Josua acted out of necessity to ensure his and the other passengers' surival
Great news! We & Josua are very happy!
But let's not forget that he should have never been arrested in the first place!
Huge thanks to our amazing lawyer & to our friends in Heraklion who attended the court to show solidarity!
More details & what this means for future cases soon!
#FreeTheBoys
We hired a great lawyer for Josua and demand that all charges against him are dropped!
Sentencing all those teenagers to life sentences is an incredible scandal!
It has to stop!
Abolish anti-smuggling legislation! 6/6
#FreeTheBoys
We’ve heard powerful accounts from inside the prison: the teenagers stick together, support one another, organise & show deep solidarity in the face of isolation & repression.
They stand together—refusing to let the system break their bonds.
You are a powerful inspiration to us all!
#FreeTheBoys
⭕️ Trial taking place today in Chania!
#FreeTheBoys
We have hired a great lawyer for Abdulrahman!
We demand all charges against him & his co-defendant to be dropped!
Abolish anti-smuggling legislation!
If you can, please consider contributing to legal costs so we can support as many as possible! 9/9
#FreeTheBoys
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In the picture you can see teenagers, holding each other. It says: "Crete. Greece. Freedom for Abdulrahman & his co-defendant. Trial on 21.5.25." It has the logo of "de:criminalize" and a small note that the image was created with Artifical Intelligence.
Tomorrow, on May 21, 18-year-old Abdulrahman will stand trial in Chania, Crete, alongside another young Sudanese man. Both face smuggling charges in a case that starkly exposes both the absurdity of this criminalization as well as the bravery and solidarity shown by those affected. 1/9
#FreeTheBoys
