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“EU: FRONTEX COMPLICIT IN ABUSE IN LIBYA”
Aerial Surveillance Is Enabling Interceptions, Return of Migrants to Harm Report by Border Forensics In Echoes No. 3 we published an interview with members of the independent agency Border Forensics. A current investigation about the aerial surveillance by Frontex in…
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BORDER FORENSICS – “AMPLIFY VOICES OF THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE TO THE REALITY EVERYDAY BORDER VIOLENCE”
Border Forensics is an agency mobilising innovative methods of spatial and visual analysis to investigate practices of border violence, wherever this violence might take place. Can you explain firstly the approach and work of Border Forensics and the wider political…
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SEPTEMBER 2022
2 September The sailing vessel Nadir (RESQSHIP) spots and assists a wooden boat in distress and alerts authorities and NGOs nearby. The Sea-Eye 4 (Sea-Eye) responds first and rescues the 76 people. 6 September Alerted by Alarm Phone, the Rise…
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EL HIBLU3 – OPEN LETTER
The prosecution against the El Hiblu 3 rests its case. That means that the court has finished hearing testimonies in the pre-trial period and the Attorney General will soon decide which charges to bring against the El Hiblu 3. We…
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STOP THE ITALY-LIBYA MEMORANDUM!
On the 15th of October, activists from Mediterranea Saving Humans and other NGOs gathered in front of the Italy-Libya Chamber of Commerce offices to carry out an action and demand a stop to the renewal of the memorandum with Libya.…
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COMMEMORACTION IN ZARZIS
Organised by the families of the disappeared and supporters, a CommemorAction took place in Zarzis, Tunisia, from the 3rd to 6th of September 2022. Ten years earlier, on 6 September 2012, a boat with about 130 people from the Tunisian…
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STABILITY SUPPORT APPARATUS: A WORRING NEW ACTOR IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
Since the summer of 2021, SSA (Stability Support Apparatus) vessels have appeared off the Libyan coast, participating in interceptions and the push-backs of migrant boats to Libya. Made up of various militias from the regions around Tripoli and Zawiyah, this…
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ELECTIONS IN ITALY: TOWARDS THE BRUTALISATION OF THE EU BORDER REGIME
By Medititerranea Saving Humans The new rightwing government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy immediately presented itself, as many feared, with the hard face of “Law & Order”. Not only on migration, however. On the contrary, within two weeks of taking…
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THE TRIAL OF THE LEFT-TO-DIE CASE OF THE 11TH OF OCTOBER
“A conviction would force a correct interpretation of international rescue conventions…” On 3rd of October 2013 at least 366 people died near the coast of Lampedusa. The photos of endless coffins in the commemoration hall of the island went through…
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IUVENTA TRIAL: CRIMES OF SOLIDARITY
Notes from Trapani During 2016 / 2017, the rescue ship iuventa was part of the civil fleet. It was a practical political intervention in response to the EU’s left-to-die policy. As a response to her contribution to rescuing more than…
