On the Italian island of Sardinia, one in four prisoners is a foreign national. A local socialist association has called for cultural mediators in prisons "to ensure that these people's stay in jail is useful for their social recovery."
Two British men have been handed sentences adding up to 14 years in prison for smuggling 31 migrants into the UK, including seven children and a pregnant woman.
The Italian right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party has said that migrant detainees, about 30% of the prison population in Italy, should serve a sentence in their country of origin to avoid overcrowding in Italian prisons.
A preliminary hearings judge (GUP) in the Sicilian city of Palermo has sentenced two men to a 20-year prison term for allegedly detaining and torturing migrants waiting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, in the Zuhara prison in Libya. Both men, identified as citizens of Bangladesh, faced torture charges.
A Belgian court sentenced a Vietnamese man to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of being the ringleader in the trafficking of 39 migrants found dead in a lorry.
After receiving threats in Côte d'Ivoire, 19-year-old Sarah fled to Libya. Shortly after her arrival, she was arrested and imprisoned in Tajoura, a suburb of Tripoli. She says the prison guards raped her every night until she gave birth to her son. Today, the young woman dreams of crossing the Mediterranean Sea. This is her story.
Photos of sub-Saharan migrants who are being detained in Libyan prisons have been spotted on Facebook by an Italian newspaper. The objective, according to the newspaper authors, is that an internet user ends up recognizing one of the migrants and pays for their release.
Greece and other European countries are increasingly using the threat of criminal proceedings against aid workers and those accused of migrant smuggling to deter asylum seekers, critics say.
More and more human rights groups, NGOs and international bodies are joining calls to free three migrants who convinced the captain of a merchant ship to not return more than 100 migrants to Libya two years ago. Meanwhile, a new report Malta and the EU's treatment of migrants overall.
One day in August, Phyllie received a phone call she had hoped she would never get. Her 19-year-old brother Daouda had been killed in a Libyan prison while trying to escape. This 43-year-old woman, who lives in France, tells InfoMigrants that she does not know how to mourn her brother without being able to recover his body and give him a proper burial.
A judge in the city of Catania on Italy's island of Sicily has sentenced 11 Nigerian nationals to a total of 136 years in prison for the international trafficking of young women and girls from their home country to Italy, where they enslaved them and forced them to engage in prostitution.
Amadi*, a 24-year-old Malian, contacted InfoMigrants to tell us about his experiences in one of Libya's state prisons. Violence against migrants in these detention centers has been well-documented and condemned, yet it continues.