Matteo Salvini is accused of deprivation of liberty and abuse of authority. In 2019, he refused to let a rescue ship dock into Lampedusa, which carried dozens of migrants.
A Syrian family was deported to Turkey by Frontex in 2016 despite having lodged asylum claims in Greece. Now, they have taken the EU border agency to the European Court of Justice. The lawsuit could set a precedence.
A judge in the city of Catania on Italy's island of Sicily has sentenced 11 Nigerian nationals to a total of 136 years in prison for the international trafficking of young women and girls from their home country to Italy, where they enslaved them and forced them to engage in prostitution.
An Italian court has sentenced a captain to a year in prison for handing migrants his ship's crew rescued over to the Libyan coast guard in 2018. The incident had sparked heated debate in Italy.
A southern Italian mayor lauded globally for his approach to immigration was convicted on various corruption charges. Observers were shocked at the severity of the sentence.
A Ceuta court has upheld a suspension for the repatriation of nine migrant minors to Morocco. They had arrived in the Spanish enclave in May without any adults accompanying them.
A German court has decided that two African asylum seekers may not be returned to Italy where they had first sought protection, due to the hardship they would face there. It's not the first time that German courts have ruled against such forced returns within Europe.
A judge in the UK has ordered a British far-right figurehead to pay £100,000 to a young Syrian national in a high-profile libel case. However, the claimant may never see much of the money as the defendant has stated that he is insolvent.
A 25-year-old Nigerian man was sentenced to 19 years in prison by an Italian court for killing another Nigerian after a fight in the informal camp of Borgo Mezzanine, in the southern region of Puglia, in October 2020.
Over 2.5 years after the start of the main trial about the abuse of asylum seekers in a reception center in western Germany, four men were dealt monetary fines. The case from 2014 in the small town of Burbach had triggered widespread outrage and forced regional governments to reassess the standards at such facilities.
The UK government acted unlawfully when it housed six asylum seekers at the Napier military barracks, a court ruled on Thursday. The facility failed to meet minimum standards, the judge found. The interior ministry said the barracks would continue to house asylum seekers.
The far-right politician had faced allegations of kidnapping after refusing to let a group of migrants disembark from a ship. But his legal battles are not over yet.