13 sew lips shut again as they remain in detention
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Thirteen Moroccan immigrants held in a migrant center on the outskirts of Rome have sewn their lips together in the second such protest at their lengthy detention.
The men, aged between 20 and 30, stitched their mouths shut in December over their long stay in a supposedly short-term facility.
They ended that protest at the Ponte Galeria facility after an assurance their cases would be speedily dealt with.
ÒIt is clear that time in politics moves more slowly than it does for these people, who have gone from the drama of a difficult immigration journey to places of little dignity such as the detention centers,Ó said Angiolo Marroni, a state official charged with protecting prisonersÕ welfare.
The men, who used thread from a blanket and a small needle to sew their mouths shut, all made the perilous journey from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa on overcrowded dinghies.
More than 33,000 migrants landed in Italy from January 2013 to late October Ñ nearly three times the number for 2012. Most come from impoverished African countries but now also from Syria.
In December, the European Union condemned the ÒappallingÓ conditions at some of the countryÕs migrant centers.
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