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.
In Greece, the trial of 24 activists accused of helping migrants reach Europe by boat has started. Among other things, they are charged with human trafficking and espionage. If found guilty, they face 25 years in prison.
The top EU court has shot down a 2018 Hungarian law that punished people who help asylum seekers. It remains to be seen if the right-wing government in Budapest will implement the decision.
Thirty-two asylum seekers have filed a complaint for human rights violations against the Maltese government. In the spring of 2020, the cabinet decided to leave them for weeks on two tourist boats outside territorial waters as a precautionary measure against Covid-19.
Alma Zadic was born in Bosnia. In the 1990s - during the war in the former Yugoslavia - she fled to Austria with her parents. In early January 2020, she was named Austria's new justice minister - the first minister in Austria with migrant roots.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Italian far-right party League, is under investigation in the city of Agrigento, Sicily. He is being probed for abduction and dereliction of duty because he didn't allow a rescue ship to dock .
The NGO that operates the Mare Jonio has filed a complaint against the Italian government over its treatment of the rescue ship. They say rescued migrants and crew were subjected to "seven days of violations, negligence and abuse."
All seven African migrants arrested for attacking police officers and firefighters earlier this month at a migrant reception center in Milan's Via Aquila have been convicted.
An Italian appeals court has sentenced a 23-year-old Libyan man to 16 years in jail for the murder of a migrant who did not obey an order to take off his hat because he did not understand Arabic. A court of first instance had previously sentenced him to life.
Prosecutors have ended their investigation regarding the mayor of Riace, Italy. They want to charge Mimmo Lucano with migrant reception irregularities, fraud, false accounting, complicity in corruption, abuse of power and embezzlement. But Lucano denies the charges against him.
A migrant has been formally charged in Germany for being a member of a Pakistan based militant organization. The banned group's name has also come up in asylum cases in Europe that involved constructed stories. InfoMigrants takes a deeper look into the issue.
Italy has seen a decrease in asylum claims while the number of appeals against their rejection has shot up in recent years, leading to special sections being set up in courts