Today marks one year since Moussa Tchangari, Secretary General of the association Alternative Espaces Citoyens Niger (AEC) – a member of the Migreurop network – was arrested at his home upon returning from an international trip. He has now been arbitrarily detained by the Nigerien authorities for 365 days.
Moussa Tchangari is a well-known figure of Nigerien civil society who has been working since the 1990s for social justice and democracy in Niger. He is being detained and prosecuted on (…)
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Trial of Doros Polykarpou (KISA, Cyprus): the use of repeated legal proceedings to obstruct the defence of exiles’ rights
The Migreurop network offers its full support to its Cypriot member Kisa and to Doros Polykarpou, on trial from today for his fight for the rights of people in exile, and for having sought to shed light on the conditions of detention in the Pournara camp in March 2022, alongside Migreurop. On 11 February 2025, Doros Polykarpou, a prominent human rights defender, co-founder of the Cypriot organisation KISA(Action for Equality, Support and Anti-Racism) and winner of the 2024 Front Line (…)
Communication in support of Moussa Tchangari
We demand the immediate release of Moussa Tchangari, rights defender and General Secretary of the Alternative Espaces Citoyens (AEC) association, who was imprisoned on 3 January 2025 after a month in police custody.
Moussa Tchangari was arrested at his home on 3 December 2024 on his return from an international trip. Charged with undermining state security, criminal conspiracy in connection with terrorism and glorifying terrorism, he spent a month in police custody before being presented (…)Tunisia: No to the Criminalization of Solidarity with Migrants
Call for Solidarity with Abdallah Said
On November 12, 2024, Abdallah Said, activist and president of the Enfants de la Lune association in Médenine , was placed in police custody by the Tunisian financial investigation unit. After a long interrogation, the charges against him remain unclear, but they appear to be mainly related to his humanitarian work supporting refugee, migrant, and abandoned children in the Médenine region.
This event is part of a troubling trend of criminalizing solidarity in Tunisia, which has (…)Frontex celebrates 20 years of rights violations with impunity
The European coastguard and border guard agency turns 20 years old on this 26 October 2024 . It’s a sad anniversary for an agency that has been widely blamed for decades for direct and indirect violations of the rights of people on the move . An agency whose aim is to ‘protect’ Europe’s borders, with no regard for the lives and safety of those who try to cross them. An agency that is the symbol of a deadly border regime and the standard-bearer of repressive and ultra-secure migration (…)
Décryptage des politiques migratoires européennes