legal proceedings

• Denmark
• Syria

A former Danish immigration minister is on trial on rare impeachment charges. Inger Stoejberg is accused of illegally separating couples who arrived in the country to claim asylum.

• Ceuta & Melilla
• Spain

A Ceuta court has upheld a suspension for the repatriation of nine migrant minors to Morocco. They had arrived in the Spanish enclave in May without any adults accompanying them.

• Ceuta & Melilla
• Morocco
• Spain

Following legal action by rights campaigners a Spanish court on Monday suspended the repatriation to Morocco of a group of unaccompanied minors who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in May.

• Denmark
• France
• Iran

French maritime authorities have rescued another 108 migrants attempting to cross the Channel between Britain and France. The migrants were in four separate boats which got into trouble near the French coast.

• Afghanistan
• Austria

Austria said it will allow an Afghan man, who was denied asylum, to stay in the country until the end of the month. NGOs have asked European countries to stop deporting people to Afghanistan.

• Italy

Eleven foreign citizens filed an appeal against the provisional ranking recently approved by the Municipality of Genoa for access to public housing, claiming it is discriminatory.

• Italy

Gloria Bresciani, the (suspended) Uber manager in Italy who is charged with alleged illegal gangmastering practices against riders, has been ordered to stand trial. According to the charges, Bresciani and three other defendants exploited "the state of need" of "migrant asylum seekers" who lived in "reception centers" and "in conditions of extreme vulnerability".

• Greece

A Greek court sentenced four Afghan asylum seekers to ten years of prison for their part in a fire that destroyed the Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos in Greece last year.

• Greece
• Turkey

Human rights lawyers have launched legal action against the European Union's border and coast guard agency Frontex on behalf of two migrants. They accuse Frontex of violating their rights as asylum seekers and breaching European and international law.

• Italy

The former mayor of the town of Riace, Domenico "Mimmo" Lucano, is facing a sentence of seven years and eleven months in jail. The charges are alleged illicit dealings in the management of migrant reception in the town, which had gained world renown for its forward-looking migration policies.

• Italy

The far-right politician had faced allegations of kidnapping after refusing to let a group of migrants disembark from a ship. But his legal battles are not over yet.

• Greece
• Somalia
• Turkey

A Somali asylum seeker has been sentenced to 146 years in prison for human smuggling by a Greek court, according to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Other migrants defended the man in court, saying that he started steering their boat to save lives after a capsizing.