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On 7th January 2005, Oury Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean man in his early twenties, burned in Cell #5 in the Dessau Police Station. The circumstances of his death are deeply contested, and have been the source of some of the most intense legal and political debates around policing, race and evidence in unified Germany.
The International Independent Commission on the Death of Oury Jalloh is a civilian-led commission tasked with ascertaining and analysing the circumstances in which Oury Jalloh died. Read the founding statement of the commission in English.
