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Italian NGO Head Under Investigation For Helping To Smuggle Migrants 27 Feb 2021 Italian NGO head and activist Gian Andrea Franchi is one of thirty people under investigation by Italian prosecutors for helping Kurdish illegal migrants into Italy from Bosnia. Franchi, who founded the pro-migrant NGO Linea d’Ombra (Shadow Line), is under investigation for allegedly aiding Kurdish migrants travelling along the Balkan migrant route through Bosnia in an effort to reach western Europe. The Trieste public prosecutor has opened an investigation into the Kurdish migrant smuggling network and has c...

UN Calls on EU to Stop Migrant Pushbacks at Its Borders 30 Jan 2021 The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on the European Union to investigate allegations that illegal migrants are being immediately deported at its borders, before they can claim to be seeking asylum. Immediate deportations at the border, commonly referred to as pushbacks, have been reported on the European Union’s land and sea borders, and allegedly recorded by pro-migration non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the areas. UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs, rele...