For the third time in 2012, a group flight of deportees left Düsseldorf on Tuesday the 17th of April, headed for Belgrade (in Serbia). Germany, with the assistance of FRONTEX (the European agency charged with the management of member-states’ external borders), has been carrying out a policy of systematic expulsion against the Roma community, at a sustained pace of one to two group flights each month, in the direction of Serbia or Kosovo.
Since 2006, FRONTEX has been coordinating the (...)
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The right to information of civil society and the press in detention centres for migrants violated
On April 17, 2012
As part of the campaign "Open Access: Open the doors! We have the right to know ", Migreurop, European Alternatives and Reporters without Borders have asked authorizations to visit detention centres for migrants from March 26 to April 26, 2012. In order to make an inventory of access of civil society and media to detention centers, many journalists, associations and groups of citizens have addressed requests of authorizations for visits to the competent authorities in (...)Death of 63 migrants in the Mediterranean: Complaint in France holds the French military to account
One year after events that led to the deaths of 63 migrants in a boat in the waters off the coast of Libya, 4 survivors, with the support of a coalition of NGOs, filed a complaint in France concerning the responsibility of the French military for failing to assist persons in danger.
In March 2011, the chaos in Libya forced thousands of migrants to flee the country to escape violence. Amongst them were 72 people of Ethiopian, Eritrean, Nigerian, Ghanaian and Sudanese origin who boarded a (...)JOINT LETTER to the Dutch Minister of Immigration to stop the deportation of Mr. Kurke Kebato
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, GISTI, FIDH and Migreurop co signed a letter to ask the Dutch Minister of Immigration to stop the deportation of Mr. K. Kebato from The Netherlands to Italy.
Arad Camp (Romania): handcuffed and beaten for a lighter
Arad camp, stories collected on the 26/03/2012
Detainees of Arad camp denounce police violence.