Sea Watch captain Carola Rackete did her duty in landing rescued migrants at Lampedusa last summer, Italy’s highest court has ruled. Rescuing people ''implies the consequent obligation to disembark'' passengers "in a safe place," the court argued.
Far-right leader Matteo Salvini is set to face charges of illegally detaining migrants at sea after Italian lawmakers voted to strip him of immunity, reports showed. The League head could face up to 15 years in jail.
Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that people fleeing their country of origin to escape honor crimes are worthy of international protection.
An ex-member of al-Qaida affiliate Nusra Front has been sentenced to life in prison for involvement in a 2013 massacre of regime forces. Prosecutors have sought to jail war criminals who arrived in Germany as refugees.
The German captain of a Mediterranean migrant rescue ship has had a conviction overturned by a Maltese court. Claus-Peter Reisch helped over 200 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
Nine people smugglers have been sentenced to up to ten years in prison, in connection to an incident in the western Mediterranean that led to the death of a young Moroccan migrant in 2018.
Foreigners living in Austria will no longer receive fewer benefits if they do not learn German, the country's Constitutional Court has ruled. The decision overturned a law from the previous right-wing government.
An 81-year-old landlord advertised that he would only let his property to Germans. Discrimination is an under-punished problem in the real estate market.
A justice in Turin, Italy, ordered a last-minute suspension of the illegitimate repatriation of a young migrant originally from The Gambia. The migrant had been transferred to a repatriation center because even though he had the necessary requirements for obtaining a legal stay permit in Italy, he hadn't managed to obtain one due to a delay in communications with his home country.
A Rome court has ruled that 14 Eritreans who were pushed back to Libya ten years ago have the right to enter Italy and request international protection. The former prime minister and defense minister have been ordered to pay 210,000 euros in damages.
Toll-free phone numbers and slashed waiting times for an appointment with asylum application services… Those are just some of the recommendations that Paris’s administrative court on Tuesday handed the French government in a bid to improve the Paris region’s failing migrant services.
Four men spent months sleeping on the floor in a busy transit area of Moscow's international airport, surviving on emergency food rations. Europe's rights court says Russia must now pay them compensation.