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“FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED MORE RECOGNITION”
Interview with David Yambio from Refugees in Libya On the 9th and 10th of December 2022, a press conference, a protest and a demonstration with up to 300 participants took place in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. The…
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11 OCTOBER 2013 SHIPWRECK TRIAL
A step toward state accountability for border violence and death at sea On December 2, 2022, there was the last hearing of the criminal trial for the so-called “children shipwreck”, which occurred on 11 October 2013*. For this event, in…
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DECEMBER 2022
4 December Patrolling off the Libyan coast, the Geo Barents rescues 74 people who were travelling in a rubber boat. On the same day, the Louise Michel spots a rubber boat carrying 103 people and assists the group until the…
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“EU: FRONTEX COMPLICIT IN ABUSE IN LIBYA”
Aerial Surveillance Is Enabling Interceptions, Return of Migrants to Harm Report by Border Forensics In Echoes No. 3 we published an interview with members of the independent agency Border Forensics. A current investigation about the aerial surveillance by Frontex in…
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BORDER FORENSICS – “AMPLIFY VOICES OF THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE TO THE REALITY EVERYDAY BORDER VIOLENCE”
Border Forensics is an agency mobilising innovative methods of spatial and visual analysis to investigate practices of border violence, wherever this violence might take place. Can you explain firstly the approach and work of Border Forensics and the wider political…
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SEPTEMBER 2022
2 September The sailing vessel Nadir (RESQSHIP) spots and assists a wooden boat in distress and alerts authorities and NGOs nearby. The Sea-Eye 4 (Sea-Eye) responds first and rescues the 76 people. 6 September Alerted by Alarm Phone, the Rise…
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EL HIBLU3 – OPEN LETTER
The prosecution against the El Hiblu 3 rests its case. That means that the court has finished hearing testimonies in the pre-trial period and the Attorney General will soon decide which charges to bring against the El Hiblu 3. We…
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STOP THE ITALY-LIBYA MEMORANDUM!
On the 15th of October, activists from Mediterranea Saving Humans and other NGOs gathered in front of the Italy-Libya Chamber of Commerce offices to carry out an action and demand a stop to the renewal of the memorandum with Libya.…
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COMMEMORACTION IN ZARZIS
Organised by the families of the disappeared and supporters, a CommemorAction took place in Zarzis, Tunisia, from the 3rd to 6th of September 2022. Ten years earlier, on 6 September 2012, a boat with about 130 people from the Tunisian…
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STABILITY SUPPORT APPARATUS: A WORRING NEW ACTOR IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
Since the summer of 2021, SSA (Stability Support Apparatus) vessels have appeared off the Libyan coast, participating in interceptions and the push-backs of migrant boats to Libya. Made up of various militias from the regions around Tripoli and Zawiyah, this…
