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3 years for jail revolt

01 January 1991

3 years for jail revolt
artdoc November=1995

Two participants in the protests at the Deportation Detention
Centre in Kassel last July were sentenced to between three and
three and a half years prison in separate trials at the beginning
of June. The participants, named only as Adel M. and Mohammed B.,
were accused of being ringleaders of the so-called "Elwe-Revolt".

The original revolt took place on the morning of 24th July 1994,
when 42 deportees, most of them Algerian, took one of the prison
guards hostage during their protests against prison conditions
and raised the demand to be allowed to travel to another European
country. During the night their numbers dwindled to 26, and their
demands were reduced to transferral to another prison and humane
treatment. On the morning of the 25th July the prison was stormed
by GSG-9 anti-terrorist units. Reports speak of extremely brutal
treatment both during and subsequent to the GSG-9 action.

The trials at the Kassel State Court are the fifth and sixth to
have taken place since last November. A total of 17 people have
so far been charged with participation in the revolt. Police
investigations into brutal treatment of prisoners by their
colleagues have as yet produced no results.

Berlin Antiracist Initiative, June 1995 Update