tear gas Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tear-gas/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 tear gas Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tear-gas/ 32 32 High Court to decide when to hear urgent application to clear refugees protest in Pretoria https://jjcornish.com/2019/11/high-court-to-decide-when-to-hear-urgent-application-to-clear-refugees-protest-in-pretoria/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/11/high-court-to-decide-when-to-hear-urgent-application-to-clear-refugees-protest-in-pretoria/ The Pretoria High Court will decide tomorrow when to hear the urgent application by Pretoria residents to clear a sit-in by refugees outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees in Brooklyn. Non Governmental Organizations are urging the UNHCR and the South African Government to find an urgent solution to the impasse. […]

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]]> The Pretoria High Court will decide tomorrow when to hear the urgent application by Pretoria residents to clear a sit-in by refugees outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees in Brooklyn.

Non Governmental Organizations are urging the UNHCR and the South African Government to find an urgent solution to the impasse.

In the High Court tomorrow Judge Ranchod will decide when the application by Brooklyn and Waterkloof residents to move the refugees will be heard.

The refugees, in the third week of their protest that involves camping outside the UNHCR offices, are demanding to be sent to another country of safety to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

The Kathrada Foundation has joined NGOs called for a humanitarian solution avoiding the police using water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades as they did against protesting refugees in Cape Town last week.  

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