UN investigators revealed once more that migrants and refugees detained in Libya face serious abuse, with women especially facing sexual violence. The report highlights how females are forced to submit to rape in exchange for food. It also mentions the discovery of "dozens" of mass graves with migrants' bodies.
On Thursday the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Lithuanian national law, which allows an applicant for international protection to be denied the right to asylum and placed in automatic detention on the grounds that they have irregularly crossed the border, is incompatible with EU legislation.
Authorities in Laayoune, Morocco have been subjecting sub-Saharan migrants to constant harassment, an Ivorian in the city has told InfoMigrants. He said scores of migrants are being arrested and detained every day and "danger is everywhere."
A hunger strike by a group of Syrian asylum seekers being detained in a closed center south of Warsaw is into its ninth day. The men say they have been treated "like criminals".
A delegation of Turkish officials accompanied by members of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from Turkey and Italy carried out a visit to a CPR repatriation center in in the southern Puglia region in Italy. The aim of the visit was to acquire information on best practices in the management of repatriation centers and the safeguard of human rights, officials said.