Historical Organization
Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh
Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh
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Oury Jalloh dies in police custody; a family and community demand answers
đź“… 7 January 2005Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, died in a Dessau police cell on 7 January 2005. His death became the focus of a sustained anti-racist campaign demanding an independent...
The first anniversary of Oury Jalloh’s death becomes a public protest
📅 7 January 2006On the anniversary of Jalloh’s death, supporters gathered to remember him and challenge the handling of the police-cell death. The annual action helped build a durable movement that connected...
Oury Jalloh supporters take their demands beyond the courtroom
đź“… 7 January 2008After organizers rejected the limits of the court process, the initiative called a nationwide demonstration in Dessau under the demand to leave the courtroom and take the struggle to the streets....
Dessau activists commemorate four years of unanswered questions
📅 7 January 2009The annual Oury Jalloh demonstration kept public attention on a death in police custody that activists said had not been adequately investigated. The movement’s insistence on remembering Jalloh by...
Annual Oury Jalloh march keeps anti-racist accountability on the streets
📅 7 January 2011The annual Dessau demonstration connected remembrance with demands for an independent account of Jalloh’s death. Organizers challenged official closure and argued that the family’s questions about the...
Oury Jalloh’s eighth anniversary is marked in Dessau
📅 7 January 2013The annual memorial march kept pressure on authorities to answer unresolved questions about Jalloh’s death in police custody. Migrant and Black activists framed remembrance as an anti-racist political...
Oury Jalloh march draws hundreds through Dessau
đź“… 7 January 2014More than 700 people marched from the train station past justice offices to the police station where Jalloh died. Speakers condemned what they saw as a network of official evasion and called for truth...
A thousand people mark ten years since Oury Jalloh’s death
đź“… 7 January 2015On the tenth anniversary, roughly a thousand people from across Germany gathered in Dessau for a memorial and protest march. The initiative insisted that remembrance must include investigation and...
Oury Jalloh remembrance keeps the demand for independent scrutiny alive
📅 7 January 2016Supporters returned to Dessau for the annual memorial demonstration, continuing a campaign that had become a focal point for debate over racism and police accountability. The march’s persistence...
Annual Dessau demonstration remembers Oury Jalloh
📅 7 January 2019The campaign’s annual march continued to connect police violence, racism, and justice claims. Organizers preserved evidence and testimonies that they felt official institutions had ignored,...
Dessau marks sixteen years since Oury Jalloh’s death
đź“… 7 January 2021Annual remembrance actions continued during a period when public gatherings were restricted. Organizers used the anniversary to keep demands for truth and accountability alive and to reject...
Oury Jalloh supporters renew the call for justice in Dessau
📅 8 January 2022The annual march commemorated Jalloh and challenged the lack of trust in official investigations. The initiative’s long-running work used public protest, expert evidence, and community memory to...