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4.8 MILLION EUROS TO STOP MIGRANTS FROM TUNISIA: ITALIAN CIVIL SOCIETY APPEALS!
Press release, 17 April 2024 ASGI, ARCI, ActionAid, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Circular Spaces and Le Carbet challenge the funding for the refitting and transfer to Tunisia of 6 patrol boats. The hearing at the Lazio Regional Administrative Court set for April 30. “PM Meloni’s visit to Tunis today confirms the strengthening of bilateral relations between […]
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FRONTEX AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Fabrice Leggeri, former director of Frontex, prosecuted for complicity in crimes against humanity and torture Press release, April 23 The LDH (Ligue des droits de l’Homme) and Utopia 56 are pressing charges against Fabrice Leggeri, former director of Frontex and now candidate for the French Rassemblement National party (RN) in the European elections, for complicity […]
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NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE ALLIANCE WITH REFUGEES IN LIBYA
During last few weeks, Refugees in Libya (RiL) and the supporting alliance (ARiL) became operational with its common project of a new hotline. Collective responsibility was formed with the goal of providing support to refugees and migrants who find themselves in precarious situations in Libya, and to document more systematically the human rights violations which […]
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CHARGES DROPPPED AGAINST ALL DEFENDANTS IN IUVENTA TRIAL!
After a seven-year odyssey, the longest, most expensive and most extensive criminal proceedings against sea rescue organizations falls. April 19, 2024: after two years of preliminary proceedings with over 40 hearings, the judge came to the conclusion that, “the facts do not constitute a crime.” In other words: everyone did what they were supposed to […]
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SHIPWRECK – 22 SURVIVORS, 9 BODIES, 15 MISSING
Wednesday, April 10th – Favaloro Pier at 9 p.m. Testimony from a Maldusa activist That evening, in many parts of the world Eid, the end of Ramadan, was being celebrated. Even in Lampedusa, among those who are not Muslims, there was a sense of celebration and carefreeness. Meanwhile, the island was starting to wake up […]
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INSIDE EGYPT’S SECRET SCHEME TO DETAIN AND DEPORT THOUSANDS OF SUDANESE REFUGEES
An investigation by Sara Creta and Nour Khalil prepared and published in collaboration between the Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE) & The New Humanitarian (25 April, 2024) “Thousands of Sudanese refugees who escaped to neighbouring Egypt have been detained by Egyptian authorities in a network of secret military bases, and then deported back to their […]
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ALARME PHONE SAHARA (APS) – FIGHTING AT LAND BORDERS
Interview with Moctar Dan Yaye 1. In what context was the APS project launched? What are its main objectives? The APS project was initiated at a time when Niger became Europe’s southernmost border. After the so-called migration crisis of 2015, the externalization of European borders spread to Africa, and it was in Niger that the […]
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RESEARCH AND IDENTIFICATION BETWEEN SEA AND SHORE: THE MEM.MED EXPERIENCE
From the sea to Italy An interview by Filippo Furri with Silvia Di Meo (Mem.Med) 1. For more than 10 years now, the issue of research for families of missing persons in migration and identification procedures has been the subject of discussion. In Italy it was thought, after the 2013 and 2015 shipwrecks, that it […]
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THE PHENOMENON OF RUN-AWAY BOATS AND THE DEMAND FOR SAFE(R) PASSAGES
For several months now, the subject of so-called “run-away-boats” has animated the world of sea rescue NGOs and beyond. These boats, which carry migrants trying to escape Libya, have characteristics that make them particularly controversial: often of relatively good quality (e.g. fiberglass-boats with several engines), they approach civil rescue ships then, once the rescue is […]
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APRIL 2024
April 4 While Mare Jonio is conducting a rescue of a case alerted by AlarmPhone the Libyan Coast Guard violently intervenes, maneuvering recklessly near the operation, firing shots first into the air, then near one of MJ’s RHIBs. 56 people were rescued, many of whom had jumped into the water to try and escape the […]