Asylum Speakers Podcast with Jaz O'Hara: Stories of Migration and Displacement
The leading podcast on asylum, migration and displacement. Asylum Speakers will take you on a journey across the world, without you having to go anywhere.
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Fatmata Episode 6: What Happens Next... (opens the original)
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In the final episode of FATMATA, Abu and the Second Tree team return to courtroom to hear the verdict in the trial of Igor Markov... But Fatmata’s story does not end in the courtroom. We look at the wider reality of border violence across Europe, and the people who are still losing their lives in the search for safety. We follow what happened to Abu and Fatmata’s family after the trial, and the fight to keep her memory, and her name, alive. ...And two years later, there’s a new development in th
Fatmata Episode 5: The Trial (opens the original)
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In the fifth episode of FATMATA, we finally take policeman Igor Markov to trial. We travel to the criminal court of Skopje - North Macedonia's capital, to join Abu, his lawyer, and members of the Second Tree team for the final hearing of this unprecedented case. For the first time since Fatmata was killed, Abu comes face to face with the policeman who shot her. After thirteen hearings spanning nine months, the trial comes to an end, and Abu is given one final opportunity to address the court. In
Fatmata Episode 4: Bringing Fatmata Home (opens the original)
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In the fourth episode of FATMATA, the focus turns to bringing Fatmata home. As Abu and the Second Tree team work to locate her body and navigate a system marked by bureaucracy, corruption and uncertainty, they face extraordinary challenges to honour her final journey. Through the voices of those who stood alongside Abu in this process, we follow Fatmata's repatriation from North Macedonia to Sierra Leone, and join her family as they finally lay her to rest. This is the story of reuniting Fatmata
Fatmata Episode 3: The Day it Happened (opens the original)
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In the third episode of FATMATA, everything changes. As Fatmata and Abu leave Greece in search of safety, they begin the journey north through the Balkans. But as they cross into North Macedonia, they find themselves caught in an ambush by border police that will change their lives forever. Through the testimony of Abu and those closest to him, we piece together the events of that night and the days that followed - from the immediate aftermath of Fatmata's death, to Abu's decision to remain in N
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