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08.07.2022, Rote Fahne News
The German non-governmental organisation has had to stop its flights over the Libyan search and rescue zone because the authorities in Tripoli now require permission for the overflight. The Libyan authorities' action against Sea-Watch is illegal. This is the conclusion of a report by the Scientific Committee of the Bundestag commissioned by Clara Bünger, a member of the Left Party. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika, Deutschland
08.07.2022, Canarias 7
Morocco's determination to hide the massacre with secret burials and deportations to the desert has unleashed a flood of missing persons and distress in the hundreds. read more
Language(s): Spanisch / Español Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika
08.07.2022, InfoMigrants
In September 2021, Domenico Lucano, the former mayor of the small Italian town of Riace, was sentenced to 13 years and two months in prison by a court in Locri. His case is just one example of many of the criminalisation of solidarity with people on the move. As mayor, he became known worldwide for welcoming migrants and his policies towards refugees. Since 2019, however, he has been accused of belonging to a criminal organisation, fraud, bribery, embezzlement and aiding and abetting "illegal entry", among other charges. Now his trial will continue on 26 October and admissible evidence will be re-examined. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europa
Just five days after the last disembarkation in the port of Taranto, 315 people have been on board the Geo Barents, the rescue ship of Doctors Withour Borders (MSF), since Thursday 7 July. Six rescue operations were carried out in the Maltese SAR zone, where the Maltese Armed Forces are normally responsible for carrying out rescue operations. According to the crew of the Geo Barents, the Maltese Armed Forces were informed, but they did not respond. MSF added that the Maltese authorities had also "neglected their legal obligation to provide or coordinate assistance". read more
07.07.2022, Tagesschau
The European Court of Human Rights has fined Greece 330,000 euros for failing to provide assistance. On January 20, 2014, eleven people had drowned near the island of Farmakonisi. The right to life had been violated due to the lack of rescue measures by the coast guard and degrading treatment of the survivors on Farmakonisi. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
07.07.2022, Balkan Insight
The European border agency Frontex has joined forces with the European Commission to overrule its own data protection commissioner. The background to this is an already long-term goal to expand a mass surveillance program at Europe's external borders in cooperation with the police authority Europol. It is planned to collect a much wider range of sensitive personal data from migrants, such as information on sexual orientation. Moreover, the collection of this data violates basic data protection guidelines and lacks regulated time limits on a maximum retention period for the data. For migrants and refugees, this results in increasing surveillance and criminalization. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa
06.07.2022, Tagesschau
People without a residence title are to be given an easier chance to obtain a right to stay in the future. This is provided for in a cabinet bill. Aid organisations say the draft does not go far enough. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union, Europa
06.07.2022, InfoMigrants
306 migrants were rescued from distress in the Mediterranean Sea within a few days by the Ocean Viking, the rescue ship of the private sea rescue organisation SOS Mediterranée. They are currently being disembarked in Sicily. Meanwhile, the Italian Prime Minister declared that the country had reached the limits of accepting migrants. read more
06.07.2022, Zeit
"According to survivors, 22 migrants died during the journey, all from Mali," said IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli. According to the report, the victims drowned or died of thirst. "Among the dead are three children." read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa, Afrika
05.07.2022, taz
Lithuania's asylum law allows the detention of refugees - an illegal regulation, according to the European Court of Justice. But the Baltic country wants to stick to it. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa, Europäische Union, Europa
05.07.2022, Abolish Frontex
On Monday 4 July Frontex announced that its Management Board, made up of representatives of EU countries’ border authorities – mostly police officers active at national level -, has appointed Aija Kalnaja as Executive Director ad interim for the agency. The change in leadership is meant to appease the intense and growing criticism Frontex is facing. read more
04.07.2022, Zeit Online
Extortion, deprivation of rights, pushbacks: the way Greek authorities deal with refugees violates international law and EU values. But there are no consequences. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union, Europa
04.07.2022, Africa Rivista
While the recent agreement between London and Kigali caused outrage, a similar agreement signed three years ago between the Rwandan government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees did not. Hundreds of migrants evacuated from Libya were brought to Rwanda on humanitarian flights. There they risk being stranded for years. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa, Afrika, Weltweit
04.07.2022, Reuters
A U.N.-appointed mission to Libya said on Monday there are "probable mass graves" yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found, and it urged Tripoli to keep searching. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Weltweit
04.07.2022, Médecins Sans Frontières
One year of operations in the Central Mediterranean haspassed by, this time with the Geo Barents - Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s vessel - rescuing 3,138 people and conducting 6,536 medical consultations before disembarking in a place of safety in Europe. Following last week’s tragic rescue, the sad reality at the Southern European border has not changed: the normalization of policies of deterrence and non-assistance at sea, as well as the dismantling of the search and rescue (SAR) system in favor of forced returns, continue to generate human suffering and loss of life. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
"In Greece, pushbacks at the sea and land borders have become a de facto daily practice," said UN Special Rapporteur Felipe González Morales. Between 2020 and 2021, at least 17,000 people are believed to have been forcibly returned to Turkey, according to a United Nations report published at the end of April. Pushbacks, as well as extortion and disenfranchisement of refugees on the part of the Greek authorities, violate international law and EU values. But there are no consequences. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europa
04.07.2022, InfoMigrants
Close to 50,000 people who were granted refugee protection in Greece have applied for asylum in Germany, Germany's interior ministry said. Out of 8,000 applications processed so far, nine in ten have reportedly been approved. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland, Europäische Union, Europa
03.07.2022, Le Monde
The Greek sea rescuer Iasonas Apostolopoulos, who has been tirelessly rescuing migrants from the Aegean and the Mediterranean sea since 2015, is constantly exposed to right-wing extremist agitation in social media and is also a thorn in the side of the conservative Greek government. Just in mid-May, Apostolopoulos denounced the practices of the Greek authorities in the European Parliament, which are contrary to international law. Here, migrants are denied the right to apply for asylum and instead are forcibly sent back to Turkey. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europa
03.07.2022, The Guardian
The Home Office is planning a second deportation flight to Rwanda although the rightfulness of the procedure is not yet decided. The hearing at the High Court on examining the government´s plan will start on July 19th. An interim injunction of the European Court of Justice stopped the first deportation flight in mid-June. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Großbritannien, Afrika
03.07.2022, Süddeutsche Zeitung
The refugee camp on the island is almost full. If more people continue to arrive from Africa, populists and post-fascists would have their theme again. What this has to do with Putin's war. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Osteuropa, Nordafrika, Afrika
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