An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl named Leonie. Her dead body was found next to a tree in Vienna last year.
Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has agreed to re-examine the cases of all three Nigerian nationals who had arrived in the Canary Islands on top the rudder blade of a cargo ship last week. This allowed them to have the status of asylum seeker until a final decision is issued.
Each night, volunteers pick up migrants stranded outside the gates of Austria's main asylum seeker facility and take them to a shelter where they can eat and sleep. As a national standoff over accommodation continues, the problem of homelessness looms large.
Italy has welcomed more than 300 migrants via humanitarian corridors over the past two weeks. The new right-wing government has said it says 'yes' to the corridors and 'no' to traffickers and "illegal immigration".
As the European Union continues to lack a unified migration policy and countries fail to provide basic necessities to asylum seekers, charities and regional networks rush to fill the gaps.