Historical Person

Mouctar Bah

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πŸ“ Germany

Mouctar Bah

Gender: Male

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Oury Jalloh dies in police custody; a family and community demand answers

πŸ“… 7 January 2005

Oury 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...

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πŸ“… 7 January 2008

After 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....

Oury Jalloh march draws hundreds through Dessau

πŸ“… 7 January 2014

More 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...

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πŸ“… 7 January 2015

On 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...