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MV Bobic case – Deadly Failure of Rescue Coordination in the Central Mediterranean
Report by SOS Mediterranee and Alarm Phone, 27th of June, 2025 On the morning of Saturday, May 24, civil network Alarm Phone alerted authorities to two overcrowded wooden boats in distress in the Libyan Search and Rescue Region (SRR). Both…
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Tunisia: Destruction and self-organised Protests
“Let our lives matter” In Echoes No. 17 we wrote: “Tunisia is opening a new chapter in the EU’s war against Black African migrants. The makeshift Camps in the olive fields are being demolished with bulldozers and fire. 30,000 persons…
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Stop the Memorandum between Italy and Libya!
Manifesto by Refugees in Libya and Alliance with Refugees in Libya In February 2017, a Memorandum of Understatement (MoU) was signed by the Italian and Libyan governments on “fighting illegal migration”. This agreement, with the support of European Union funding…
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Kinsa case – EU’s top court rules: Anti-smuggling laws must be made compatible with fundamental rights
Italian Court subsequently drops all charges against Congolese woman The European Union’s highest court has set out important restraints to States’ anti-smuggling laws, which wrongly criminalize people on the move and those in solidarity with them. On 3 June 2025,…
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The obstruction of search and rescue vessels causes hundreds of deaths at sea
Joint statement, 17th of July 2025 32 organisations demand the immediate ending of the systematic obstruction of non-governmental search and rescue (SAR) efforts by the Italian state. In the past month alone, NGO vessels have been detained three times due…
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Italian Constitutional Court reinforces maritime law
SOS Méditerranée, Press release, 9th of July 2025 On the 8th of July 2025, the Italian Constitutional Court dismissed the legal challenge to the Piantedosi Decree, but in doing so, it reaffirmed a vital principle: national measures must comply with…
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S.S. and Others vs Italy: A missed opportunity to end border violence at sea
In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) condemned Italy for rescuing persons in distress and transshipping them to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, whereas Libya cannot be defined as a place of safety (Hirsi Jamaa and others…
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Disappeared at Sea: Italy’s complicity in the 11th July Tunisian Interception
On the evening of the 11th of July, 27 people arrived at the Favaloro pier in Lampedusa. The 27 survivors told us about their journey towards Europe. We tried to reconstruct what happened to them, amplifying their testimonies to accuse…
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Commemoraction: Families of missing from Senegal and Tunisia went to Cameroon
April 2025 Feric lost his brother in the massacre of Tarajal 2014. Together with other family members he founded an association in Douala, Cameroon where many of the victims had been born. In a meeting at the 10th anniversary of…
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Memory as Resistance: A week of actions in Palermo
Mem.Med – Memoria Mediterranea is a grassroots initiative, a project born to recover the memory of the missing, support grieving families, and challenge the violence of European border policies. The project aims to accompany relatives through the process of searching…
