Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has warned that over 2,500 asylum seekers and migrants are being detained in "inhumane" conditions in Lithuania after they crossed the border from Belarus. The NGO said many are at risk of mental health degradation.
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.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague is being asked to investigate crimes against migrants in Libya and the Central Mediterranean. Several European NGOs say officials in Italy and Malta could also be liable for having supported Libya’s actions.
The Italian Coalition for Freedoms and Civil Rights (CILD) has created a website called 'Buchi neri' (black holes) which focuses on the administrative detention of foreigners in Italy.
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More than 160 migrants died off Libya over the past week, according to the UN. The total number of migrants who perished on the Central Mediterranean route this year is now over 1,500.
A report published by the Migrantes Foundation of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) underscored a sharp rise in the detention of migrants in Libyan centers this year. Official centers alone were holding some 10,000 in early October, compared with about 1,100 in January, the report stated.
In recent months many migrants crossing the border from Belarus to Poland have made it clear that their goal is Germany. They don't want to stay in Poland, where a large number of migrants are being held out of sight in an isolated, closed facility.
The Council of Europe has decided to shelve a case against Italy that began in 2016 with a sentence on the arbitrary detention of a group of migrants in 2011. The Council noted that Italy has taken steps to solve violations reported by the European Court of Human Rights.
The human rights organization Amnesty International accuses the Greek authorities of illegally detaining migrants in an EU-funded camp for asylum seekers on the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea.
The president of the Italy-based NGO Habeshia Agency sent a letter to the European Parliament calling for a "radical revision" of policy towards Libya, especially regarding the thousands of migrants currently stuck there.
Migrants and asylum seekers are often detained 'for administrative reasons', even though this practice violates human rights, claims a new report from charity Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees.