Matteo Salvini is accused of deprivation of liberty and abuse of authority. In 2019, he refused to let a rescue ship dock into Lampedusa, which carried dozens of migrants.
The 406 migrants and refugees currently aboard the Sea-Watch 3 will be allowed to disembark in Pozzallo, Italy. They had been rescued in the Mediterranean on Sunday and Monday; several migrants have since been evacuated from the ship due to medical emergencies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the situation of migrants in Italy, where there has been a decrease in the foreign population but where the foreigners remaining have grown poorer, according to the 2021 report on immigration published by Caritas and Migrantes.
A project titled "Rural Social ACT" was launched in Rome with the goal of fighting the problem of illegal gangmastering, stemming mafia practices, and promoting inclusion as well as social and job reinsertion for migrants.
A group of refugees has discovered that some victims of the October 2013 shipwreck off Lampedusa were moved from their tombs to a mass grave. This has drawn criticism from activists, and local authorities have launched an investigation into what happened.
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has launched a kit to support education about refugees in Italian schools. The initiative was launched to mark World Teachers' Day on October 5.
Four people have been placed under investigation by prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Bari, after a probe revealed that a repatriation center in the city was not providing adequate health care and checkups to residents at the end of 2019.
A 30-year-old Ivorian citizen has filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights; asking for Italy to be condemned over the "inhuman and degrading conditions" in which he has been forced to live whilst working on the harvest.
The former mayor of the town of Riace in southern Italy, Domenico Lucano, has defended himself against accusations after being sentenced to 13 years in jail, saying that he is proud of having helped people who arrived in Riace after fleeing war and poverty.
More than 600 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa at the weekend, as the island marked the anniversary of the tragic shipwreck which claimed the lives of over 360 migrants eight years ago.
The UN has calculated that almost 18,000 people lost their lives in the Mediterranean since a ship capsized in 2013 off Lampedusa, killing 368.
A man from sub-Saharan Africa was killed in a fire in the Sicilian city of Castelvetrano. The fire broke out at a migrant camp inside a former concrete plant. The property had been occupied for years by foreigners who come to the area to harvest olives.