The drowning and disappearing at the Mediterranean Sea continued as 13 people died and 40 people went missing within a few days. Search and rescue ships are still blocked in ports and none are operational in the dangerous central Mediterranean Sea. The monitoring...
Lethal shipwrecks between 23-29 October claimed more than 230 deaths. Within just two days more than 500 people were rescued and returned to Mauritania. Over 11,200 people arrived to the Canary Islands in 2020, almost half of them within the past month. The conditions...
Croatia has dismissed allegations of brutal violence by its border police after new testimonies collected by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of Croatian police beating, robbing and sexually abusing people on the move and pushing them back to Bosnia. Ylva Johansson,...
The European Commission has called for an extraordinary Frontex Management Board meeting on 10 November, as a reaction to reports of complicity of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in illegal pushback operations. The Agency has further come under...
After a five year trial the Athens Court of Appeal delivered a landmark ruling declaring the far-right Golden Dawn party a criminal organisation. Hundreds of recognised refugees transferred to the mainland and finding no options are returning to Lesvos. In an open...
