From the Greek Streets

After almost four months in a coma, Arivan Abdullah Osman has passed away. Abdullah was a 29-year old Kurdish refugee from Iraq. He was severely beaten by port police in the city of Igoumenitsa in NW Greece whilst mingling in the port with others, hoping to get into on one of the trucks boarding the ferries to Italy. According to eye-witnesses, police commandos repeatedly banged Abdullah’s head on the cement, causing him an internal hemorrhage. The ministry of mercantile marine, responsible for the port police, had issued a statement at the time claiming Abdullah was epileptic and that he caused the injuries upon himself…