sea watch

• Libya
• Malta

Three men were found dead on board a boat carrying 81 other migrants that was rescued by Malta early on Wednesday. The charity Sea-Watch has claimed that authorities purposely delayed the rescue.

• Italy
• Libya

Italian prosecutors said they are seeking government permission to investigate footage purportedly showing the Libyan coast guard firing shots at a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The video was filmed by rescue organization Sea-Watch, who also filed the complaint.

• Gibraltar
• Netherlands
• France

Humanitarian rescue organizations are accusing a supply ship, the Vos Triton, of participating in what they call an "illegal pushback" to Libya, in which migrants rescued from a drifting boat were handed over to the Libyan coast guard.

• Italy

The first of more than 450 people rescued from the Mediterranean by the Sea-Watch 4 have gone ashore in Sicily. The migrants included children and unaccompanied minors who had attempted the dangerous journey from Libya.

• Italy

The Italian authorities have issued another order of administrative detention in the Sicilian port of Augusta for the migrant rescue ship Sea Watch 3 after the coast guard found a number of irregularities.

• Italy

A migrant rescue ship has been allowed to disembark 363 people rescued from the Mediterranean in Sicily. Italy also "provisionally" lifted a blockade of the vessel Sea-Watch 4.

• Italy
• Libya

Between Friday and Sunday, some 550 migrants were rescued in the Central Mediterranean. While the private rescue organization Sea-Watch said it saved some 450 people, a Libyan patrol boat picked up nearly 100 from a shipwreck, in which 20 passengers are reported missing.

• France
• Germany
• Syria

Abdullah Sabra was just 14 when he was sent to sea by his father. After nearly a decade spent working on merchant vessels, he reached a point where he knew he needed to leave the ship. His passage to asylum in Europe however was different from most. Now in Germany, he is hoping to return to sea to help other refugees from the decks of the Sea-Watch.

• France
• Italy

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced in a statement that "administrative obstacles once again do not allow the Sea-Watch 4 to rescue lives while people continue to die in the central Mediterranean." The NGO said on October 23 that it fears that technicalities are being used by Italian authorities to block migrant-rescue vessels.

• Italy

Four NGOs involved in the rescue of migrants experiencing difficulty at sea have issued a statement calling for Italy to stop blocking their ships.

• Italy

Italian authorities have confined the migrant rescue vessel Sea-Watch 4 to port in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Aid groups say the move has been made under false pretenses.

• Italy

27 migrants rescued by cargo ship Maersk Etienne have disembarked in Sicily after being stranded at sea for close to six weeks, ending one of the longest standoffs in the Mediterranean between a boat and EU governments. According to a local online service, the whole group tested negative for the coronavirus.