The European Commission has begun an infringement procedure against Hungary for its law on NGOs commonly known as 'Stop Soros', which bans foreign-funded organizations from providing assistance to migrants.
Mother Mechthild, the German nun who offers church asylum to migrants in the German state of Bavaria, is about to go on trial, for doing just that. She spoke to a local newspaper on Monday, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, about her work.
Five Eritrean citizens have filed a lawsuit in the civil court in Rome against Italian authorities for what they claim was an illegitimate pushback to Libya on July 2, 2018.
An Italian public prosecutor has requested prison sentences for those involved in an alleged illegal "system" run by some non-profit organizations in Milan. Those on trial are accused of falsifying documents to profit from the reception of hundreds of migrants.
The Danish parliament has voted to begin an impeachment trial against the former immigration minister Inger Stojberg. She will go on trial over her policy of separating asylum seeking couples if one of them was under 18, and therefore a minor.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, along with various other human rights advocacy groups, have been busy collecting evidence documenting Hungary’s continual flouting of EU law with regards to pushbacks. Since the EU Court of Justice declared Hungary’s pushbacks illegal in December 2020, a recorded 4,903 people have been pushed back to Serbia.
The former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini on Saturday appeared before a Palermo judge in connection with a 2019 incident during which he blocked migrants at sea. He faces charges of abduction and of failing to carry out an act as public official.
The appeals court of Bari, in the Italian region of Puglia, upheld the sentence against the Italian interior ministry for damage to the city's image caused by the presence of the former Identification and Expulsion Center (CIE), where foreign citizens were detained in "inhumane and degrading conditions, harmful to their dignity."
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini on Saturday appeared for the second time in court in connection with the delay in disembarking 131 migrants from the Gregoretti ship last July. At the hearing in Catania, transport minister Danilo Toninelli accused Salvini of being responsible for the delay, stressing that he had the responsibility to decide whether to disembark the migrants.
The UK Home Office charged 69 Albanian migrants in November this year with "illegally entering the country" on a boat. Now it has transpired that the boat was intercepted before they reached the UK and so the charges have been dropped.
A Senegalese court has sentenced three fathers to jail after it found that the fathers had pushed their sons to migrate. They were found guilty of "endangering the lives of others."
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.