Authorities in Laayoune, Morocco have been subjecting sub-Saharan migrants to constant harassment, an Ivorian in the city has told InfoMigrants. He said scores of migrants are being arrested and detained every day and "danger is everywhere."
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that migrants and asylum seekers locked up in a migrant detention center in Mykolaiv on the edge of the frontlines in southern Ukraine are in danger and need to be released.
A hunger strike by a group of Syrian asylum seekers being detained in a closed center south of Warsaw is into its ninth day. The men say they have been treated "like criminals".
Several dozen irregular migrants were reportedly trapped in a detention center in northwestern Ukraine weeks into the Russian invasion, an investigation by several media outlets found. An unconfirmed number of migrants appear to remain in the EU-funded facility, from where migrants are usually deported.
A delegation of Turkish officials accompanied by members of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from Turkey and Italy carried out a visit to a CPR repatriation center in in the southern Puglia region in Italy. The aim of the visit was to acquire information on best practices in the management of repatriation centers and the safeguard of human rights, officials said.
A number of French presidential candidates and politicians have held up Greece as a model for its border and migrant management, including French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. That's despite the "prison-like" conditions in Greek camps called out by rights groups and the practice of illegal pushbacks which has been condemned by the UN.
A group of around 100 migrants, mostly from Iraq, are holding a hunger protest over conditions in the Polish reception center where they are being held. The strike is the second of its kind at the center in Wędrzyn.
InfoMigrants contacted Eric*, an African migrant who has been locked up inside the Pabradé migrant camp in Lithuania for several months. He said he is under permanent pressure from the Lithuanian military in the camp, who harass the migrants to "go home".
A preliminary hearings judge (GUP) in the Sicilian city of Palermo has sentenced two men to a 20-year prison term for allegedly detaining and torturing migrants waiting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, in the Zuhara prison in Libya. Both men, identified as citizens of Bangladesh, faced torture charges.
In the summer of 2021, thousands of migrants entered Lithuania irregularly from Belarus. They found themselves blocked at the border of the European Union and taken to closed camps. InfoMigrants met several of these migrants, from the Middle East and Africa, who dreamed of reaching Western Europe. Six months later, what has happened to them?
Houthi rebels in Yemen have blamed the Saudi-led coalition for an airstrike that hit a detention center. The strike comes days after three people were killed in a drone attack on the UAE claimed by the rebels.
A new administrative detention center (CRA) opened on January 17 in Lyon, in southeastern France. Over the past four years, French authorities have doubled the capacity of these facilities which are reserved for migrants awaiting deportation. Aid organizations once again condemn the "prisonization of detention centers" and the "criminalization of immigration."