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Spanish police investigating migrant boat deaths detain five Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, April 9, 2021 BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Spanish police say they have detained five men for allegedly navigating two migrant boats to the Canary Islands and being responsible for the deaths of some of its passengers. The men are being investigated for “favoring illegal immigration” with three of them also being investigated for homicide, Spain’s national police said in a statement rele...

InfoMigrants By Sertan Sanderson Published on : 2021/03/09 The Council of Europe (CoE) has published a new report about developments in Europe's response to the migration situation on the continent. The document highlights a series of shortcomings that have marginalized and endangered migrants especially during the COVID crisis. Among the most important trends related to the European migration situation, the report highlighted that in the past two years – since publishing its last paper – the ongoing lack of adequate search and r...

Today (1 March), MEPs will assess the situation on the Canary Islands, following the surge in migrants’ arrivals in the last months and the limited reception capacity. The Civil Liberties Committee will discuss the latest developments with Commissioner Ylva Johansson, President of the Canary Islands Ángel Víctor Torres and a representative of the NGO Spanish […]

InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/02/23 Some 350 African migrants, including over 100 children, have reportedly been freed from a secret prison in southeast Libya. The UN migration agency, IOM, said many of them were malnourished and had been abused. Libyan authorities on Sunday raided a secret prison in a southeastern city used by human traffickers and freed at least 156 African migrants, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday (February 22). The UN migration agency IOM told InfoMigrants that as many as 351 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A court in Senegal has sentenced three men to jail terms for pushing their sons to migrate by sea to Europe, a trip that led to the death of one, according to local reports. The three were found guilty of “endangering the lives of others,” and sentenced to two years in prison, with 23 months suspended. Among those sentenced in the coastal town of Mbour Tuesday was Mamadou Lamine Faye, whose teenage son died along the route. Doudou Faye’s father had paid the equivalent of about $450 to a smuggler who was to take him into Spain. The young man was going to try to ...