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December 2025
December 1 Upon disembarkation of the 85 survivors, Humanity 1 was placed under detention by Italian authorities under the Piantedosi decree, who accused crew from failing to coordinate with Libyan authorities. AlarmPhone alerted a distress case of 26 people aboard…
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November 2025
November 1 Trottamar III rescued 16 people from a rubber boat. Survivors were disembarked in Lampedusa. November 2 Mare Jonio rescued 37 people who were on an overcrowded fiberglass vessel at risk of sinking in international waters in a Libyan-controlled…
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November 2025 – February 2026: Criminalising Solidarity, Resisting Abandonment
Over the past three months, the central Mediterranean has once again exposed a stark conflict: on one side, people on the move fighting for their freedom of movement and civilian actors attempting to prevent deaths at sea; on the other,…
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Survivor brings Italy before the European Court of Human Rights after failure to surrender Libyan torturer Elmasry to the ICC
For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights will examine a state’s failure to hand over a suspect wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). A sub-Saharan survivor of torture in Libya has filed an application against Italy…
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October 2025
October 4 The crew of Humanity 1 rescued 41 people who had been in distress at sea for more than four days in an overcrowded rubber dinghy. October 6 The Sea-Watch 5 crew rescued 79 people who were left to…
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At the edge of the sea – Chronicles of death and disappearance
This section documents the deaths and disappearances along the Central Mediterranean, while recognizing that countless shipwrecks remain invisible, boats that vanished without a trace. Behind every number lies a name, a story, and a family torn apart by the border…
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September 2025
September 2 41 people were stranded at sea for 6 days on the merchant vessel Maridive 208 and no European country intervened. On September 2nd, the Aurora crew rescued them. 7 persons remain missing. September 6 The Sea-Watch vessel Aurora…
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August 2025
August 2 Ocean Viking received an alert from Seabird, the aircraft of Sea Watch regarding a distressed vesselwith 37 people on board in international waters in the Libyan SRR. After receiving approval toproceed from the competent authorities, Ocean Viking rescued…
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July 2025
July 3 2 iron boats in the Central Med, carrying 60 & 52 people, almost sinking, were ignored by authorities for many hours after alerts from Alarm Phone. Only the sailing boat Garganey VI responded, rescuing the first boat and…
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Justice Fleet : Search and Rescue Organisations Suspend Communication with Libyan Rescue Coordination Centre
Brussels, 5 November 2025: After years of escalating human rights violations by the so-called Libyan Coast Guard in the Mediterranean Sea, 13 search and rescue organisations are taking a decisive stand: They are founding a new alliance and are suspending…
