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CPOY 70 Interpretive Project Bronze: Return to Sender

In december 2014 the Danish Government presented a new report concluding that it would be safe for Eritrean refugees in Denmark to return home to the country they just fled. A conclusion far different from Amnesty Internationals statement, and the many experts who criticized the report. At a closed down hospital outside Copenhagen, Denmark, a group of Eritreans makes a decision. They want to tell about the conditions they fled from. But they need to tell the story as a group, and anonymous. Because they are all concerned about the consequences for their families back home. These are their stories, as they tell them:

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December 2, 2014
He works as a life-guard for a general of high status in the military. But a disagreement sends him straight to jail. He pulls his shirt over his head and tells us about five days of torture, About sitting bound by his hands and feet, taking multiple beatings by the spine of a dead animal. About how he felt he slowly lost his mind.
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / Høgskolgen i Oslo og Akershus
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