Since his conviction on September 30th for 13 years and 2 months in prison, support protests in favour of Domenico Lucano, former Riace village mayor in Calabria, have multiplied in Italy and elsewhere. While "Mimmo" Lucano’s welcoming policy had made Riace and its mayor the symbols of an alternative society based on mutual aid, his conviction is widely perceived as yet another attack on solidarity with migrants.
Although the details of the Locri Court’s decision are not known - as it has (...)
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State xenophobia and criminalisation of solidarity in Cyprus
KISA is again under attack by government
KISA, a Cypriot member of the Migreurop network, is once again in the government’s sights for its action in favour of people in exile. Since 14 December 2020, KISA has been removed from the Register of Associations, pretexting that it did not comply timely with the administrative procedures as per the “Law on Associations and Foundations” of 2017.
This is not the first time that KISA has been subjected to the relentlessness of the authorities and part of the media, because it denounces the (...)Frontex, 15 years of impunity: The outlaw agency must disappear!
The European coastguard and border guard agency Frontex is accused by various media of knowledge of or complicity in the pushback of at least six boats of migrants in the Aegean Sea between March and September 2020 as part of Operation Poseidon. For the first time, the agency has been summoned to explain itself to the European Commission and Parliament. It was about time!
Numerous and recurrent accusations For ten years now, multiple actors have been documenting the incompatibility of (...)Call for the immediate evacuation of Moria
In support for exiles living on the island of Lesbos, Migreurop is a signatory of a Tribune initiated by European personalities published in Libération’s newspaper of 11 September 2020.
At a time when 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers are wandering homeless on the roads and hills of Lesbos, when those suffering from smoke inhalation and burns from the fire in Moria are prevented by the police from reaching the hospital in Mytilene, when solidarity groups bringing basic necessities are (...)In Calais, Abdulfatah Hamdallah was the latest victim of European migration policies
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On Wednesday 19 August, Abdulfatah Hamdallah, a Sudanese refugee from western Kordofan, was found dead on a beach in Sangatte, in Pas-de-Calais, after trying to cross the strait that separates the United Kingdom from France aboard a makeshift boat.
One more death.
Abdulfatah Hamdallah is not the first person who has died trying to reach England. In Calais, like elsewhere in the European Union and at its gates men, women and children are dying trying to cross borders in the hope of (...)