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FROM SEA TO PRISON
The criminalization of boat drivers in Italy ARCI Porco Rosso and Alarm Phone The criminalization of migration has been an important element in the context of the EU’s cruel border policies. A growing awareness of the scale and importance of…
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VOS THALASSA
Right to self-defense for people at risk of being pushed-back to Libya Report by the Civil MRCC legal team In December 2021, the Court of Cassation – the highest court in Italy – acquitted for ‘non consistency of the facts’,…
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THE FREE EL HIBLU 3 CAMPAIGN
The “ElHiblu 3” were among 108 people rescued by the merchant vessel ElHiblu 1 in March 2019. When facing the prospect of being illegally returned to Libya, the group of migrants protested and convinced the crew to steer north instead.…
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SEA-EYE ON THEIR EXPERIENCES OF TRANSSHIPMENT
“We are glad that we did this to show everybody that there are no reasons to hesitate” Already a first time in March 2022 and one more time in May the Sea-Eye 4 transshipped survivors, who have been rescued before…
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MAY 2022
May was a very busy month for Alarm Phone (AP) and the Civil Fleet. AP has been alerted by 59 boats departing Libya. One boat contacting AP was on its way from Turkey to Sicily. We know about 112 boats…
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SOLIDARITY WITH SELF-ORGANIZED REFUGEES IN LIBYA
In October 2021 – after brutal raids in a quarter of Tripoli – refugees and migrants started an amazing period of self-organized resistance in Libya. Against their permanent deprivation of rights and with the central demand for „evacuation now“ they…
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CENTRALISED COMMEMORACTION IN TUNISIA
Commemoraction is self-organizing of this mostly affected by the consequences of the border regime. We know from the history of all the struggles for finding the truth that death in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic, in the desert and…
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MARCH TO BRUSSELS “RIGHTS, NO DEATHS!”
Due to the increasing number of deaths and disappearances at the EU borders, we propose a protest action in Brussels between different European organizations that have been defending the rights of people who migrate forcibly. We want this initiative to…
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EU BORDER EXTERNALIZATION IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
The implementation of a system of forced return to Libya Sophie-Anne Bisiaux Border externalization has in the last few years become the main instrument through which the EU seeks to stop people on the move heading to Europe. The principle…
