A report authored by the group Researchers X, with the support of several organizations including ASGI (a member of Migreurop), and Border Forensics, led by Charles Heller (an individual member of the network), as well as The Routes Journal, On/borders, and MeltingPot, highlights the existence of a trafficking and torture network targeting sub-Saharan migrant women between Tunisia and Libya.
The report has been published on the website statetrafficking.net. It will be presented to the (…)

Libya InfoMigrants, ‘Mediterranean: 2,500 migrants intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to Libya since the start of 2026’, 12 March 2026
Since the beginning of 2026, more than 2,500 migrants have been intercepted in the Mediterranean by the Libyan coastguard and forcibly returned to Libya. These interceptions are carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded in 2017 between Italy and Libya, which provides for logistical and financial support from Italy and the European Union to (…)

Migreurop’s analysis

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On 26 March 2026, following on from the recent rights-violating legislative reforms (the European Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Schengen Code reform, the redefinition of the concept of ‘safe countries’...), MEPs approved a new instrument that effectively annihilates the rights of migrant people and continues to dismantle EU law, and, by extension, international law.
In the blink of an eye, the hard-right’s repressive agenda has prevailed. And (…)

Egypt InfoMigrants, ’In Egypt, arrests of African refugees are increasing as part of a widespread crackdown,’ 25 February 2026
Egypt has launched a campaign of arrests and deportations of migrant people in an effort to halt arrivals. Nearly 5,000 migrants have been detained in police stations for reasons related solely to immigration and several human rights organisations have denounced the ill-treatment and violence suffered in these places of deprivation of liberty.
Such violence is (…)

On 14 January, a peaceful protest by 175 asylum seekers detained in Harmondsworth and Brook House detention centers in England was violently repressed by law enforcement. The detainees were protesting inhumane detention conditions and their removal to France under the “One in, one out” agreement signed during the summer 2025. Following this event, the detainees wrote reports and an open letter to the European civil society demanding to access their fundamental rights. Migreurop is publishing (…)