Weekly Editorial: Border Prisons Are Go. Or Not.

Weekly Editorial: Border Prisons Are Go. Or Not.

Along with other NGOs, ECRE has today published a statement on the proposed Asylum and Migration Pact, under development at EU level. As civil society is often accused of being too critical and only seeing the negative side of policies on asylum and migration, ECRE...
Med: People Returned, Rescued and Gone Missing

Med: People Returned, Rescued and Gone Missing

On Thursday, the rescue vessel Aita Mari, run by the Basque NGO Salvamento Maritimo Humanitario, disembarked 158 people in the port of Messina, Italy. The former fishing boat rescued the group including 51 minors in two operations at the Central Mediterranean on...
Austria: Arrivals Plummet – Detention Rockets

Austria: Arrivals Plummet – Detention Rockets

A report by the Global Detention Centre reveals that immigration detention in Austria has tripled since 2015 while the numbers of asylum seekers have plummeted after 2016. The report provides an overview of the legal framework that governs immigration detention in...
Hungary: Continued Starvation Tactics Continued Interim Measures

Hungary: Continued Starvation Tactics Continued Interim Measures

A case compilation from ECRE member Hungarian Helsinki Committee reveals that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has for the 18th time granted interim measures in cases of food depravation involving 28 individuals in the Hungarian transit zone. The starvation...
N.D and N.T v Spain: Return to Morocco Did Not Breach Convention

N.D and N.T v Spain: Return to Morocco Did Not Breach Convention

On 13 February 2020, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (GC) published its judgment in the case of N.D and N.T v Spain (Application Nos. 8675/15 and 8697/15) concerning the immediate return of two men to Morocco after attempting to cross the...