Fleeing War, Facing Prison Imagine fleeing a war zone, risking your life across deserts and the Mediterranean, only to end up behind bars for trying to survive. Over 200 Sudanese teenagers and young men are imprisoned in Greece—from Crete to…
Italian Court subsequently drops all charges against Congolese woman The European Union’s highest court has set out important restraints to States’ anti-smuggling laws, which wrongly criminalize people on the move and those in solidarity with them. On 3 June 2025,…
Joint statement, 17th of July 2025 32 organisations demand the immediate ending of the systematic obstruction of non-governmental search and rescue (SAR) efforts by the Italian state. In the past month alone, NGO vessels have been detained three times due…
It was July 2004 when the Cap Anamur case exploded. The German humanitarian ship, while returning from delivering aid to Africa, had rescued 37 people from a sinking rubber dinghy. They were kept offshore for several days. Then, when the…
“Justice has proven elusive for the Three. They have been punished before even standing for trial: six years in limbo for teenagers has marked them for life. The charges should be dropped, immediately!” Daniela De Bono, Coalition for the El…
On 28 March 2025 we acknowledge the 6th anniversary of Abdalla, Amara, and Kader arriving in Malta. Six years of dreams are on hold. Six years of legal limbo. Six years of going to court and leaving frustrated. An anniversary…
We were devastated and angry at the Appeal Court’s decision on 22 January 2025. The Court rejected the appeal by the El Hiblu 3’s lawyers arguing that the matter of jurisdiction, among others, should be considered at trial. The case…
Rached Tamboura, Saïdia Mosbeh, Sherifa Riahi, Mahmoud Jouou, Yadh Boussalmi, Mustapha Jemali, Abderrazak Krimi, Abdallah Saïd, and Imen Ouardani are just some of the names of those who were victim of the repressive machine applied by the Tunisian authorities under…
Civil society organizations engaged in search and rescue (SAR) activities in the central Mediterranean express strong concern over yet another attempt by the Italian government to punish assistance to people in distress at sea and to criminalize NGOs. Picture: Wanda…
A few days before yet another court hearing on 6th of November in Valletta, the Coalition for the El Hiblu 3 – a coalition of groups and individuals in Malta and beyond who demand dropping charges against Abdalla, Amara, and…
Fighting Fortress Europe has never been easy, but the civil fleet is operating in an increasingly smaller space in the Central Mediterranean. We witness a highly militarized and mobile so-called Libyan coast guard backed by the EU and other Libyan…
No to the criminalization of solidarity, freedom for activists in Tunisia defending the rights of migrants and refugees! 18 December 2024 Since May 7, 2024, civic activists in Tunisia have been arrested and placed in pretrial detention. Their so-called crime?…
