Spanish prosecutors have launched an investigation into last week's migrant deaths on the border of Spain's Melilla enclave in Africa. The Spanish prime minister meanwhile defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled the migrants. In Morocco and Spain, pro-migrant protesters took to the streets.
A Tunisian human rights group has denounced the dismantlement of a migrant and refugee sit-in protest outside the UNHCR offices in the Tunisian capital on Saturday. The UNHCR says it was part of an agreed transfer with protestors.
The UK has been thwarted in its initial attempts to deport migrants to Rwanda after the European Court of Human Rights issued last-minute injunctions. Rwandans are watching events unfold with skepticism.
Migrants have been protesting in front of the UNHCR office building in Tunis for weeks. They are trying to draw the attention of the media and humanitarian organizations to their living conditions, and to demand that the UNHCR expedite their requests for international protection.
Iceland is intending to deport about 200 asylum seekers, including one man with a physical disability, according to media reports. Several organizations are protesting the plans to send people back to countries where they may face persecution or poor and inhuman living standards. The law might be on their side.
In front of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Tunisian capital, dozens of migrants have been camping for several weeks in plastic tents. They want the UN to process their requests to be evacuated from the country.
Ten Kurdish asylum seekers in Poland have now been refusing to eat for three weeks straight in protest of what they described as prison-like conditions and slow asylum procedures.
214 men, women and children coming from countries such as Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia have for the past two months been protesting in front of UNHCR offices in Tunis, calling for their rights to be recognized. Alessandra Sciurba, a university researcher in Tunisia and former chairman and spokesperson of Mediterranea Saving Humans met some of them and listened to their story.
The Lebanese government has demanded an investigation into an incident in the night between Saturday and Sunday (April 24-25) in which at least six migrants drowned off the coast of Tripoli. Some survivors have said that the military cutter voluntarily rammed into the migrant vessel.
A group of Tunisian and international NGOs have issued a statement expressing their solidarity with migrants and refugees protesting against the UNHCR in Tunisia.
Refugees and migrants are protesting in front of the UNCHR offices in Zarzis in southeastern Tunisia demanding evacuation to other countries.
Diplomatic tensions between Iran and Afghanistan have been on the rise following the circulation of videos alleged to show Afghan refugees being beaten and humiliated by Iranians over the weekend.