Tunisian authorities in recent days have stopped various attempts by migrants to illegally depart for Europe. During their operations, the authorities also seized cash linked to criminal activity.
Europe has introduced strict measures to stop illegal migration, yet many Pakistanis are still willing to undertake perilous journeys to migrate. Smugglers have continued exploiting young people in rural Pakistan, leading to tragedies along the route. InfoMigrants' Aasim Saleem covered one such stories of a failed journey.
Four British men accused of smuggling 29 people have been jailed in the UK. The men received sentences totaling 16 years between them for their part in sailing the migrants from France to the UK.
Police in North Macedonia have found 53 migrants crammed inside a truck. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a human trafficking gang.
Spanish police announced on February 3 they had arrested 26 suspected smugglers. The group is thought to have brought more than 900 migrants from Algeria to Spain during 2019, earning at least €1.5 million.
Selma and her husband fled Iran with their two children more than a year ago. After becoming separated at the Greek border, they finally ended up in Germany -- but in two different cities. Now they are desperate to be reunited. This is Selma's story.
47 people were arrested in Gibraltar and Spain during the course of a police operation to break up a smuggling ring operating between Morocco, the British territory of Gibraltar and Spain.
Nine people smugglers have been sentenced to up to ten years in prison, in connection to an incident in the western Mediterranean that led to the death of a young Moroccan migrant in 2018.
A Russian man has been charged with fraud after he constructed a false border post near the Russian border with Finland. Border control authorities said he received 10,000 euros from four South Asian migrants after promising to smuggle them into the EU.
In Niger and the Sahel region in west-central Africa, the trade in goods and people has been big business for centuries. In the last few years, people smuggling was an officially recognized profession. In some cases, smugglers even paid taxes. But in the last year, that business has been experiencing a downturn as a series of laws, passed originally in 2015, have begun to bite, causing the former smugglers to look elsewhere for an income.
German police units coordinated a series of raids on 18 premises across six federal states on November 13 in an operation targeting criminal gangs involved in the illegal smuggling of migrants.
Border restrictions or not, human smuggling from Greece to Western Europe is still happening. InfoMigrants' reporters were recently in the Greek capital to investigate. This is their account.