When three African boys fled Libya on a crowded rubber boat, the last thing they were expecting was to disembark in handcuffs and be charged for terrorism in Malta
The latest hearing in a three-year inquiry takes place this week for three African migrants, arrested as teenagers in Malta in 2019. Amnesty International and other human rights activists have been campaigning for the charges against the teens to be dropped. InfoMigrants spoke to Amnesty in Malta for this week's hearing.
Italy's highest court has ruled that two migrants had the right to refuse to be taken back to Libya after being rescued at sea. Because Libya cannot be considered safe, they had the right to pressure a ship's crew to turn towards Italy, the judges found.
Merchant ships and illegal pushbacks: forgotten stories from the Mediterranean
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Since Covid-19 began spreading around the world, images of shipwrecks have largely vanished from our screens. Yet the refugee crisis is still ongoing. Day after day, crews of commercial vessels along Europe s southern frontiers, encounter people trying to reach asylum whatever the risk. Valeria Alice Colombo has witnessed the political and humanitarian consequences of these encounters first-hand.
After so many months of shipwrecks, pandemics and stories of unjustified sequestering, it is a relief to finally see the fleet of NGO ships back in the sea north of Libya. This is a stretch of land and water in which tragedies take place - virtually unheard of - every day. It s therefore even more heartening to see that there s a new ship in place. It s run by a group that Pia Klemp, ex-captain of the well-known Iuventa mission, put together. The team is also supported by an iconic, politically co