Case of Akkad vs. Turkiye/A woman gave birth whilst trying to reach Greece/Protests in Eleonas Camp/UN Special Rapporteur official observation after visiting Greece/Extreme border violence at the Greek border/2021 Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer Report/Aita Mari has finally been allowed to dock in Italy/Undocumented domestic workers’ strike in Brussels/UK-Rwanda Policy may…

World Refugee Day — Ten thousand protest in Italy // Four missing following shipwreck near Mykonos // Afghan Activist Speaks Out Against Racism // GPS Tags Illegal? UK — FEATURE Changing Perspectives: has the Rwanda Deal made a difference in France? Despite the intention of the UK government to deport those seeking asylum to the African country of Rwanda, people are still hoping to reach the UK from Northern France.

Will the UN and partners be allowed to remain the main stakeholder and organisation the people depend on? / More refoulements after Italy-Libya agreements / Pushbacks “de facto general policy in many States”, UN Special Rapporteur confirmed / calls for support, reports on geo areas, SAR mission reports, podcasts & recommended reads by our team — FEATURE While the exact arrangements made between police and people who are manipulated into collaborating in the criminal pushbacks in Greece remain unclear, reports state that the men do the work in exchange for travel documents, as well as items such as phones and clothing stolen from those pushed back.

Call for action in Poland // Suspension of Schengen border code, Italy // Trial due to start of attempted suicide victim from Moira 2 — FEATURE UK Rwanda flight cancelled by ECHR With just minutes to spare before the flight was due to leave, the European Court of Human Rights prevented the first deportation flight. Citing “real risk of inhuman and degrading treatment (Art. 3 ECHR)”, the UK government was forced to comply, preventing the six…

France’s new EU asylum pact proposal // Turkey announces tighter immigration measures // Alarmphone has lost contact with a group stranded on the Evros islet//High rate of fatalities still in the Mediterranean // UK protests against the first planned flight to Rwanda // FRONTEX publishes data on migration flows into the EU // UN report published on human rights violations at the EU borders // and extra resources/reading….

MSF calls for the respect of human dignity in border control / New ‘camp’ on Lesvos in the “worst location possible to build the camp“ / ECRI calls out Denmark for anti-Muslim policies in the country and recommends changes / Poland: Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw overturned the ruling by the Border Police / — FEATURE For more than 48 hours we have again been in contact with a group of 28 Kurdish refugees from Syria (among them several children) who are stranded on an islet in the river Evros near Soufli.

Poland: Human Rights Watch report/ The 450 people from Mare Jonio and Sea Watch will disembark in Pozzallo / In France, child detention continues in spite the ECHR decision / 40 NGOs denounce the risk of more racial profiling / Frontex may end up in the European Court in Luxembourg for maintaining operations in Greece despite numerous reports of violations — FEATURE Now it is also confirmed by the Supreme Court: In Sicheldorf, southern Styria, police officers carried out an illegal push-back to Slovenia during the tenure of Interior Minister Karl Nehammer.

Life lost in Libya // Rights for Long Stayers in Germany // Sea Watch 3 and Mare Jonio rescue vessels work together — FEATURE Tensions rise between Greece and Turkey Greece is on “full alert” as events and tensions in Turkey may cause more people to attempt the crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands. People fleeing war and persecution have often been used as weapons when the two neighbouring countries have faced heightened tensions.

UK takes in fewer Ukrainians per capita than most of Europe / on the neglected and ignored inhumane practice for people returned to Niger — a report / Greece ignores interim measures, while the surveillance system only sees people to deter, not to rescue / Hungary convicted, but will that change anything? — FEATURE UNHCR considers that a clear majority of those recently arriving in the United Kingdom by boat are likely to be refugees. “Refugees and asylum seekers are not, and should not be described as, ‘migrants’,” the Agency’s spokesperson said to the media. However, the government insists on its plans.