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?…
„…Defending the right to freedom of movement is one, perhaps the central task in the struggle against global authoritarianism…“ Last month, Medico, the medical aid and human rights organization based in Frankfurt, started the promotion for a Freedom of Movement…
On November 6, 2024, the El Hiblu 3 are due back in court in Valletta. After five and half years, the farcical trial against Abdalla, Amara, and Kader, three young human rights defenders, continues and they remain in limbo as…
Over the past years, within our no-border networks, including the Captain Support Network, borderline europe, Watch and Med Alarm Phone, the Iuventa crew, the Ragazzi Baye Fall, Sportello Sans Papiers of Arci Porco Rosso, and more recently the Maldusa Project,…
For the first time, after more than 20 years without being amended, European laws criminalising the “facilitation of unauthorised migration” are probably about to be changed. What we do not yet know is in which direction. While activists for the…
21st May 2024 On 14 June 2023, a fishing vessel carrying around 750 people sank 47 miles off the coast of Pylos, a small town in the region of Peloponnese in Greece. The people had started from Tobruk in Libya…
On 30 May 2024, another hearing in the El Hiblu 3 case took place in the courtroom in Valletta. The judge decided to dismiss the plea of the lawyers for lack of jurisdiction. In the session before the defenders of…
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…
Coalition for El Hiblu 3 On the 13th of April 2024, the Coalition for the El Hiblu 3 presented Abdalla Bari, Amara Kromah, and Abdul Kader with the Human Rights Defenders Award at the University of Malta, in Valletta. The…
