Refugee Stories – The Hunger Strike
Jamal age 20, he came from Morocco in 2008. .
Photographer Sander de Wilde is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From his personal work, project ‘Losing Faith‘. To see Sander’s body of work click on any image.
Dechraoui, age 33 came from Algeria in 2004.
Moncef, age 53, came from Tunesia in 2009, lost 9 kg, now is 60 kg.
Mohammed, age 23 came from Algeria in 2009, lost 13 kilograms, now 45 kg.
23 refugees seeking asylum in Belgium stopped eating on the 14th of January 2012. They found shelter in the VUB. Free University of Belgium. Strong North-African men who didn’t eat for more than 3 months. I portrayed them during the process. One of them stitched his mouth and another one did a suicide attempt.
Jamal age 20 wears this white cloth against headaches, came from Morocco in 2008, lost 14.5 kg, now 61 kg.
Dechraoui, age 33 came from Algeria in 2004.
Jamal age 20, he came from Morocco in 2008. On day 56 he stitched his mouth to force Maggie De Bock, Belgian Minister of Migration, to give him a green card.
21 refugees without papers stopped their hunger-strike after 103 days. One Moroccan refugee Bouachib Lasri attempted a suicide from the first floor. He refuses to stop the strike. His co-hunger-strikers stopped his attempt.
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By Sander de Wilde