Protest calls for the closure of detention centers for foreigners in Spain.

Alert DateMarch 5, 2012 Country: Spain Address: Madrid General Type: Institutional discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Policing - law enforcement Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Other
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Victims Gender Male, Female
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Fatalities - deaths 2
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Perpetrators Nationality/Ethnic Origin Spanish
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Extremist/Organised Group Violence No

The NGO SOS Racism and twenty entities more, have held a demonstration last Sunday in front of the Center for Foreigners (CIE)  of Aluche for the closure of these "areas  of opacity" and to report the death of a Congolese woman last Christmas.

Lluc Sanchez, spokesman for SOS Racism, said that with this act the concentrates wanted to demand the closure of nine CIE that currently exist in Spain where, he assured, "are denied freedom of foreigners" who live there "confined and enclosed" without respect for their rights.

In addition, protesters have denounced the deaths of Martine Samba, which occurred on January 6 Aluche in CIE, and the Guinean Ibrahim Cisse, who also died last Christmas at the Detention Center of Barcelona.

They have also criticized the conditions of "habitability and safety" of so-called "rooms of the CIE", which the spokesman for SOS Racism are actually "cells" and "cases of abuse and ill-treatment" to ensure their found in these places.

Lluc Sanchez, who has reported these claims are held by the Ombudsman and the prosecutor office General State has stated that of Aluche ICN currently has 270 seats, of which about 90 percent are covered.

http://www.amodominicana.com/2012/03/concentrados-por-el-cierre-del-cie-de-aluche/