On December 2, the UK Home Office is planning a charter flight to deport up to 50 people back to Jamaica. A group of 91 Black public figures and campaigners have written an open letter to airlines urging them to refuse to accept the contract. Opposition MPs have also joined in.
Malta's government is facing legal action over alleged rights abuses. Migrants say Maltese authorities left them stranded at sea before ordering their return to Libya in a fishing boat.
Milan public prosecutor Paolo Storari on Monday closed an investigation into charges of exploitation of riders used for food delivery and tax crimes against employees of Uber Italy. The inquiry on May 29 led the court to issue the first-ever measure of its kind against a delivery service when it put Uber Italy, a branch of the US corporation, under special administration.
Italy's former interior minister Matteo Salvini has been accused of illegally detaining migrants at sea. A judge has now summoned Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte as a witness before deciding if Salvini should go on trial.
Italy's former interior minister and League party leader Matteo Salvini will appear before a judge on October 3 in the Sicilian city of Catania for a preliminary hearing in the Gregoretti case, in which he is accused of deprivation of liberty. In protest against the trial, the party will be holding several initiatives in Catania this week.
Prosecutors in Treviso are investigating a migrant center in the former military barracks 'Serena di Casier' in the northeastern Veneto city after the number of confirmed coronavirus cases climbed from two to 257 in less than two months. The center's management was accused of failing to separate migrants who had tested positive for the virus from the other guests.
A group of human rights activists and lawyers took their case to prosecutors to a court in Rome on Thursday, asking them to determine whether the Italian authorities were complicit in an incident involving a migrant boat at Easter, in which 12 people drowned and the 51 survivors were taken back to Libya.
A total of 80,366 applications for migrant regularization in Italy have been submitted in the first month of the scheme, which began on June 1 as part of post-COVID-19 relaunch measures. The vast majority of the cases have already been processed. However, the Italian interior ministry said the number of applications is continually growing.
Thousands of migrants are suing the German authorities for suspending the time limit to return asylum seekers to the country where they first entered Europe during the coronavirus crisis. Without the suspension, over 2,500 asylum seekers would have been able to remain in Germany to have their asylum claim processed.
Two Afghan men have been found guilty by Greek courts and sentenced to jail for six years and nine months each. The men are alleged to have taken part in riots on Tuesday at a migrant detention center in northern Greece. They deny any wrongdoing.
For the first time anywhere, Syrian intelligence officers are facing trial — in Germany. The court aims to probe the defendant's alleged crimes as well as cast light on Bashar Assad's system of torture and oppression.
On Thursday, a top official at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) branded the accommodation housing asylum seekers on the Hungarian-Serbian border ‘detention.’ The statement by the advocate general is non-binding and a decision will be reached by the court at a later date.