The Italian Coalition for Freedom and Civil Rights (CILD) has reported that between 2018 and 2021, nearly €44 million were spent by private agencies to manage ten Centers for Residence and Repatriation (CPR) for migrants in Italy -- a sign that detention has become a "very profitable sector" in Italy, according to CILD.
Amnesty International denounced an operation that took place October 1 in Libya, in which security forces and militias in Tripoli used illegal lethal arms and other forms of violence in an unprecedented roundup of more than 5,000 men, women and children from Sub-Saharan Africa, who are now being held in horrid conditions.
Libyan authorities have returned more than fifty Egyptians who had tried to reach Europe by boat. Police in Libya also arrested two men suspected of human trafficking.
Turkish authorities have detained 415 migrants during a series of raids in the country's largest city, Istanbul. In another operation in the east of the country, another 86 migrants have been intercepted.
The right-wing League party in Italy is proposing the creation of a detention and repatriation center in Ventimiglia, on the border with France, to solve "the problem of migratory flows on the Italian-French border."
Turkish authorities again apprehended dozens of irregular migrants in the border province of Van, three days after a similar incident. The group comprised at least 113 migrants, state news agency Anadolu reported. Increased violence and the prospect of civil war in Afghanistan correlate with a rising number of Afghans seeking safety in neighboring countries.
The organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) has denounced the atrocities endured by migrants inside detention centers in Libya, citing the stories recently reported by five migrants in Ragusa, Sicily.
"Stress, nightmares and no future": this is the impact of Greece’s latest twist in migration policy on one young Afghan asylum seeker. A new law passed in June means thousands like her could be left without a home or status, or held in detention as they wait to be sent back to Turkey.
More than 40 UK rights organizations sent a public letter to British Home Secretary Priti Pratel on Monday. They were united in condemning the introduction of 24-hour GPS monitoring of people on immigration bail in an expansion of surveillance powers that has been done without any consultation process.
The Portuguese government has said it will do away with its controversial Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF). But neither its own staff union nor migrant advocacy groups are happy about the new solution of putting other police forces in charge.
Amnesty International says Lebanese security forces have committed "shocking violations," including torture, against some Syrian refugees in Lebanon over the past ten years. The country is home to some 1.5 million Syrian refugees.
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has said that the conditions to which detained migrants are subjected on Malta could be considered as "inhuman and degrading treatment."