This week the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, in conjunction with ECRE and a number of European project partners, launched their report “Crossing a Red Line: How EU Countries Undermine the Right to Liberty by Expanding the Use of Detention of Asylum Seekers upon...
The Sea Watch 3 search and rescue vessel of German NGO Sea-Watch remains blocked in the port of Catania after the Italian Coast Guard reports to have found “technical irregularities”. Consequently, there are currently no more civilian rescue vessels operating in the...
By Stavros Papageorgopoulos, Legal Assistant, ECRE [..] 16. Governments shall ensure that lawyers (a) are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference; (b) are able to travel and to consult...
Tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea continues, with more that 170 people dead or missing in two separate shipwrecks last weekend. A further 144 people that were ‘rescued’ by a cargo vessel were returned to inhumane conditions in Libya. Meanwhile, naval anti- smuggling...
The Spanish government of Pedro Sanchez has announced plans to expel 9,000 irregular migrants in 2019. They also intend to create new foreigner detention centres (CIEs) in the Peninsula. The country’s budget proposal for 2019, still to be approved in April, was...
