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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Slide 4 of 9
December 2, 2014
An officer wanted her to marry him. But she already had a boyfriend, an turned him down. They come to her house at night and takes her to an underground prison. She shares a cell with 25 other women. The young and beautiful ones are ordered up to the officers office to clean, make coffee and be available for what the officers might want. Atone point, one of the women are asked to undress in front of the others. She is smeared in honey, bound at hands and feet and taken up into to overground courtyard. And there she is left, for wasps and mosquitos to sting her.
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / Høgskolgen i Oslo og Akershus
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