Mawda Shawri, two years old in 2018, sister of Hama, daughter of Phrast and Shamden, was shot dead by a Belgian police officer during a migration border control. In 2023, over 40 people, both undocumented and documented resident activists, assembled before the camera at La Voix des Sans Papiers in Brussels to stage a collective hearing of documents from and reactions to Mawda’s case. In this hearing, the speakers produce the counter-evidence of this deadly Channel crossing, and they practice justice as a sensuous social space for collective mourning and healing.
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