Demonstrators Commemorate Oury Jalloh

DESSAU, GERMANY - JANUARY 7: A demonstrator holds a bag showing a picture of Oury Jalloh and the date he died in Police Custody at the start of a memorial march marking the 21st anniversary of the death of Oury Jalloh at Dessau police station on January 7, 2026 in Dessau, Germany. Oury Jalloh was a an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone who died in police custody at Dessau police station on January 7, 2005. The circumstances of his death, in which he allegedly set fire to his own mattress with a lighter while alone in his cell and subsequently burnt to death, sparked national and international outrage, as suspicions remain that there has been a cover-up by the police and the judiciary. (Footage by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)