AI expressed concern about the numerous allegations it had received in recent years that law enforcement officers in Belgium have subjected people — a high proportion of them foreign and non-Caucasian Belgian nationals — to physical and psychological ill-treatment, including racist abuse, and have used excessive force.
This document discusses the case of Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old Nigerian national, who died on 22 September 1998 within hours of an attempt to deport her forcibly from Brussels-National airport. It was alleged that gendarmes who escorted her onto a plane at Brussels-National airport subjected her to verbal abuse and pressed her face against a … Seguir leyendo Belgium: the death of Semira Adamu: justice still awaited
Amnesty International has written to the Belgian authorities expressing concern about the death of Xhevdet Ferri, an asylum-seeker of Albanian origin, in a cell at Steenokkerzeel Detention Centre 127-bis on 12 October 2000 and allegations that he was subjected to medical neglect and cruel and degrading treatment before he died.
This document is concerned with investigations following the death of Semira Adamu, a Nigerian national who died shortly after an attempt to deport her. It also discusses allegations made by two other asylum-seeking women in Belgium.