Ceuta Illegal Migrants Stage Hunger Strike Demanding Asylum, Transfer to Mainland
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Ceuta Illegal Migrants Stage Hunger Strike Demanding Asylum, Transfer to Mainland
Between 100 and 200 mainly Moroccan illegal migrants have begun a hunger strike at the sprawling Trampolín beach settlement in Ceuta, demanding asylum in Spain and opposing their return to Morocco after last month’s mass illegal invasion. The protest began on Sunday, 16 August, when around 200 migrants gathered with Spanish flags and placards reading ‘We want asylum’ and ‘We don’t want to go back to Morocco’. Many refused food distributed by the…
The protest takes place in an enclave that has been transformed over the last few weeks into a settlement with a thousand people
Thousands of people from Morocco have crossed this Thursday irregularly through the border spurt to Ceuta, which joins thousands more registered swimming in the last few days and to which the central government works for the "delivery" of all these people to the neighboring country.
Protesters in Ceuta are demanding international protection and a "better life." As reported by the Spanish news agency EFE, they wrote on cardboard posters that they are from Morocco and do not want to return to their country.
Group admits to continuing strike until having asylum in Spain
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