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Report to the UN: Deportation of Protestors against Inhumane Conditions in Refugee Camps and Asylum Procedures in Austria

In November 2012 hundreds of refugees and their supporters walked from the Traiskirchen Lager (reception camp) to the center of Vienna and set up tents in the Sigmund Freud Park to protest against the inhumane conditions in the camp, including the lack of translators, German courses, access to education, and the opportunity to work. The self-organized protest movement of refugees speaking for the first time in Austria for themselves is gaining much media and public attention.