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NEXT HEARING ON THE 6TH OF NOVEMBER – FREE EL HIBLU3
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…
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THE CRIMINALISATION OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT: A COURSE AND A PODCAST SERIES
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,…
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THE KINSA CASE: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT VS FORTRESS EUROPE
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…
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DRIFTING AND DISAPPEARING: THE ATLANTIC ROUTE
So far, this section of Echoes has focused in particular on the Central Mediterranean route, because that is where most of the civilian SAR fleet has operated since 2014. Without going into detail here on the geographical evolution of civil…
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CIVIL FLEET: PROTOCOL OF A LAST-MINUTE RESCUE
It is around 11 p.m and we are getting ready for the night shift, which will start at midnight. Five cases are open. A sixth appears, a bit after midnight. A relative is missing a friend who set out from…
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SEPTEMBER 2024
September 1 Nadir assists an overcrowded wooden boat with 61 people in distress. The people have been on the water for 2 days. All are brought to Lampedusa by the Italian coast guard. September 2 Nadir finds a fibreglass boat…
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AUGUST 2024
Picture MSF Sea @MSF_Sea August 2024 August 1 Nadir rescues 27 people who had been in distress at sea for 3 days. Many have burns from the toxic fuel-saltwater-mix. All survivors disembark safely in Lampedusa (1). Ocean Viking spots…
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JULY 2024
July 1 The crew of Louise Michel assists 36 people, including 17 unaccompanied minors, from an unseaworthy rubber boat in distress (1). July 5 The crew of Humanity1 rescues 291 people from 3 boats in distress with the support of…
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AUTHORITARIAN TENDENCY IN THE ITALIAN CHAOS
On the eve of the commemorations, institutional and otherwise, of the shipwreck of 3rd October 2013, dozens of boats are arriving in Lampedusa: some recovered by military assets, some rescued by the civilian fleet’s sailboats, others on their own. Within…
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JOINT STATEMENT: TUNISIA IS NOT A PLACE OF SAFETY FOR PEOPLE RESCUED AT SEA
Ahead of the presidential elections in Tunisia, 62 human rights organizations urge the EU & its member states to act now to end human rights violations against refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants by the Tunisian authorities, stop the crackdown on…
