Dear all,

we, the Refugee Law Clin­ic e.V. Jena, would like to invite you all to our online work­shop, where we will be joined by Phil, who is cur­rent­ly work­ing in legal coun­sel­ing for refugees on Samos. The work­shop is in Ger­man. Trans­la­tion might be pos­si­ble on request if you reg­is­ter in advance at info@rlcjena.de. Here are some more infor­ma­tion:

What?
The ‘Closed Con­trolled Access Cen­tre’ (CCAC) on the Greek island of Samos became oper­a­tional as an ini­tial recep­tion facil­i­ty under the so-called ‘hotspot con­cept’ in late 2021. Cur­rent­ly, near­ly 1,000 asy­lum seek­ers live in the facil­i­ty. Human rights orga­ni­za­tions crit­i­cize the lack of med­ical and psy­cho­log­i­cal care, police vio­lence and the restric­tion of the right to asy­lum. Togeth­er with Phil Mertsching, the top­ic of deten­tion and impris­on­ment of refugees will be dis­cussed at the CCAC.
What frame­work does EU leg­is­la­tion set for the deten­tion of refugees?
What is the prac­tice in the CCAC on Samos?
What is the role of (Euro­pean) civ­il soci­ety in address­ing human rights vio­la­tions at the EU exter­nal bor­ders?

Who?
Phil Mertsching has worked as a legal advi­sor as well as in pub­lic rela­tions for I Have Rights (IHR) on Samos. Cur­rent­ly, he serves as an offi­cer and in the admin­is­tra­tion of IHR.

I Have Rights (IHR) is a Greek-Ger­man human rights orga­ni­za­tion that pro­vides free legal coun­sel­ing for refugees on the Greek ‘hotspot’ island of Samos. In addi­tion, IHR con­ducts out­reach on human rights vio­la­tions at the EU’s exter­nal bor­ders and strate­gic lit­i­ga­tion. https://ihaverights.eu/

When and How?
Thurs­day, 22.06.23, 4–7pm
online (we send you the zoom-link after reg­is­tra­tion at info@rlcjena.de)

Fund­ed by:
The project is fund­ed by the Local Part­ner­ship for Democ­ra­cy Jena (PfD Jena) under the aus­pices of the City of Jena, fund­ed by the Fed­er­al Min­istry for Fam­i­ly Affairs, Senior Cit­i­zens, Women and Youth with­in the frame­work of “Live Democ­ra­cy!” and the state pro­gram for democ­ra­cy, tol­er­ance and cos­mopoli­tanism “DenkBunt” of the Thuringian Min­istry for Edu­ca­tion, Youth and Sports.