A man who drove a van in which two Syrians suffocated last fall has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The 19-year-old was allegedly part of a network that smuggled refugees and migrants, mostly Syrians, from Hungary to Austria.
Law enforcement agency Europol said in a press statement that it conducted a joint action day exploring the danger of exploitation which Ukrainian refugee women can be exposed to. Several potential human traffickers were identified as part of the coordinated effort.
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini faces defamation charges because he called ex-Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete a 'rich and spoilt communist', among other things. Now, the court wants senators to decide whether Salvini's comments were protected by parliamentary privilege.
Hundreds of people have been evicted from migrant tent camps in the past 24 hours in what Paris authorities call "sheltering operations." At least two children were among a group forced out of their tents in the latest clearance, activists say.
More than 470 migrants have disembarked from the ship Sea-Eye 4 in the port of Messina, in Sicily. Another 112 people rescued in the Mediterranean by the Spanish vessel Aita Mari also began disembarking on the Italian island.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Turkey unlawfully expelled a young Syrian refugee after forcing him to sign a document that said he was returning voluntarily.
InfoMigrants's feature podcast "Tales from the Border" takes listeners on an audio journey across the political and physical barriers that confront migrants as they attempt to reach their destination in Europe.
In the last few days, Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 16 migrants. On Monday, the coast guard said it had retrieved the bodies of four migrants.
Greek authorities say they rescued more than 164 people as they tried to sail to the Greek Islands from Turkey on Sunday. Eight others are still missing and are believed to have drowned.
In the closed center for asylum seekers on Samos island, asylum seekers are kept under guard and behind barbed wire. Before the facility opened nine months ago they lived among rats and snakes, but they had freedom.
A court in Belgium ruled this week that state authorities violated asylum seekers' right to reception in a 'deliberate, coordinated and persistent' fashion. Rights activists have long criticized that many migrants and refugees in Belgium are left homeless as reception facilities are at capacity.
A 35-year-old Egyptian migrant died on Wednesday evening after being struck by a bullet fired by French police. The van he was traveling in rammed through immigration controls at the border, said French prosecutors.