The UN refugee agency UNHCR has called for immediate action after two boats shipwrecked Thursday off Libya and 150 migrants are feared to have drowned. Search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean must be resumed and arbitrary detention stopped, the UN says.
Recent law changes in Germany make it easier to hold rejected asylum seekers in detention. But what exactly is deportation detention, how is it different from departure custody, and what's behind the separation precept?
The UN's special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants criticized Hungary's 2015 decision to declare a state of emergency over the so-called refugee crisis. He added that the measure amounted to little more than scare tactics, and criticized the country's transit zones as being detention facilities.
This is the story of Ahmed H., a Syrian man living in Cyprus since 2006 and married to a Cypriot national. He has two Cypriot-national daughters. Since 2015 he has been detained in Hungary. Now Amnesty International is trying to convince the Cypriot authorities to allow Ahmed to return home.
Twenty prominent organizations have published an open letter warning the French government about the condition of migrants held in the country's detention centers, where two people recently committed suicide.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that there is a ''catastrophic situation'' in Libyan detention centers that it visited. Over the past nine months, it noted, 22 people have died from suspected tuberculosis and other diseases in two detention centers south of Tripoli.
Italian authorities have arrested four people on suspicion of human trafficking and aiding prostitution. The arrests also lead to the dismantling of the group that was allegedly operating in Nigeria, Libya and Italy.
In Tripoli, a group of migrants who were being held in the Zintan detention center have been relocated to a UN facility awaiting evacuation from Libya. There are still concerns for more than 5,000 detainees suffering ‘dire’ conditions.
On June 5, Danes head to the polls. The ruling center-right government hopes to woo voters with its harsh anti-immigrant agenda. A closer look at the Kaershovedgaard deportation camp shows what that looks like.
A few kilometers from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, 240 foreigners are detained in the administrative retention center (CRA) of Mesnil-Amelot, where they will be kept before being deported - or released. When Rachid Temal, a senator and member of the Socialist Party, went to visit the center on Friday, April 26, InfoMigrants went along. Living in constrained conditions and a sometimes tense atmosphere, the undocumented people here count the days before they continue into an uncertain future.
At least two people have been injured after an airstrike hit a target close to a detention center in Tripoli where more than 500 migrants are being held. The United Nations refugee agency has demanded that all migrants in conflict-affected areas in and around the Libyan capital be immediately moved to safety.
Thousands of detained migrants, mostly Ethiopians, are facing serious health risks in Yemen. The UN is calling for the release of the detainees, including several hundred children. There are also concerns that some of the migrants are being forcibly recruited to fight in the civil war.