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Italy: Police operation against life-saving civil society organisation
02 March 2021
At dawn on Monday 1 March the Italian authorities launched an operation against the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, which undertakes missions in the Mediterranean to save people in distress at sea, accusing them of receiving money in exchange for taking on board migrants who had been rescued by the Maersk Etienne tanker.
According to a report in
Mediterranea are under investigation.
A statement published by the Ragusa public prosecutor s office (pdf) says that the operation concerns the offences of aiding and abetting illegal immigration and violating the maritime navigation code.
The prosecutor s statement claims that
InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/02/15
It was a busy weekend in the central Mediterranean. The Spanish rescue organization Open Arms said that it had picked up 146 migrants in two separate rescue operations. Meanwhile, the Tunisian navy said that it had picked up 25 from a shipwreck, with one person confirmed dead and about 22 missing.
On Friday evening (February 12) the Spanish rescue organziation Open Arms said its rescue ship picked up 40 migrants after many hours of searching and encounters with a Libyan patrol boat.
It happened last night #Med Rafel and his 3-month-old baby Moez, were rescued together with 38 more people in a flimsy boat on the high seas.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/01/14
Several humanitarian organizations have sent an appeal to Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese. They want her to immediately allow church charities to carry out five flights to evacuate vulnerable migrants from Libya to Italy.
In a letter released on January 12, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have asked Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese to immediately grant permission to church charities to carry out five migrant evacuation flights from Libya to Italy.
The open letter was signed by sixteen organizations including Mediterranea Saving Humans, Alarm Phone and Baobab Experience as well as twenty migrant rights advocates. According to the signatories, Lamorgese s ministry has been working on the realization of a beautiful project for five evacuation flights from Libya to Italy for six months.