Germany: Dessau remembers Oury Jalloh, asylum seeker burned in police cell


Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Dessau on Monday as part of an annual demonstration in memory of Oury Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean asylum seeker in Germany, who died as a consequence of fire in a Dessau police cell, in 2005. The death has been treated as a judicial scandal in Germany, with many speculating a police cover-up.

Protesters marched through the city, chanting slogans and holding up banners that declared Jalloh’s death to be murder.