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A BIG VICTORY AT THE PYLOS9 IN GREECE
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…
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EL HIBLU3 IN MALTA: THE FARCIAL TRIAL CONTINUES
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…
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ON THE INVIOLABLE CIVIL RIGHT TO RESCUE: BRINDISI COURT DECISION
On the illegitimacy of the NGO ships’ seizures The criminalization of civil relief in Italy is by no means new. Since 2017, it has been carried out by successive governments of all orientations, through a multiplicity of instruments. From media…
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THE NADOR-MELILLA BORDER TRAP
A counter-investigation into the racist massacre of 24 June 2022 A counter-investigation into the racist massacre of 24 June 2022, by Border Forensics, in collaboration with Irídia-Centre for the Defense of Human Rights and AMDH-Moroccan Association for Human Rights „On…
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INTERRUPTED SEA – ALARMPHONE REPORT
The illegal and violent practices of the Tunisian National Guard in the Central Mediterranean Migrants boats on Beliana beach. Photo: ananymous Based on testimonies gathered by various actors of Tunisian and transnational civil society, this report documents the interception practices…
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TO RAHMAN FARAZI, DEAD AT THE BORDERS
A journey through the identification of a deceased person On 6 March, Rahman Farazi died on board the Sea Watch 5. Rahman was 19, from the Bangladeshi city of Maripur. Rahman died after being rescued in the middle of the…
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JUNE 2024
June 7 Geo Barent rescues a fiberglass boat with 37 people in the Libyan SAR. They then respond to an AlarmPhone alert and rescue an additional 109 people in an unseaworthy rubber boat. The distant port of Civitavecchia is assigned…
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MAY 2024
May 1 Geo Barents rescues 52 people from a wooden boat alerted by AlarmPhone. Among the rescued are a dozen unaccompanied teenagers (1). May 3 Life Support rescues a group of 87 people alerted by and Pilotes Volontaires (2). May…
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AT SEA, ON LAND, IN THE POLITICAL CONTEXT: IT IS TIME FOR NEW CHALLENGES!
One year ago exactly, we wrote that “everything (and everyone) was in motion.” While this is certainly true today for all the actors involved in the central Mediterranean route, it is no less necessary to try to put a few…
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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…
