Our 8-week report is out! It covers the period 2 Sept. to 27 Oct. 2019. We engaged in 99 distress cases in the #Med, involving around 3,580 migrant travellers. About 2,362 individuals reached #Europe, 985 were returned & the fate of over 200 is unknown. alarmphone.org/en/2019/11/14/…
In the Central Med, we worked on 28 distress situations, involving about 1,729 people. 20 boats with 1,078 people on board were rescued to #Italy or #Malta, 8 of them by NGOs. 5 boats carrying 418 people were returned to #Libya. The fate of 3 boats with 233 people is unclear.
In the #Aegean Sea, we worked on 57 distress situations, involving about 1,477 individuals. 38 boats with approx. 920 individuals on board reached #Greece while 18 boats with about 496 individuals were returned to #Turkey. In one case, 61 individuals were rescued to #Italy.
In the #Western #Mediterranean, we worked on 14 distress situations, involving about 374 people. 11 boats with about 303 people on board were rescued to #Spain, 4 of them to the #Canary Islands. 3 boats with about 71 people on board were returned to #Morocco.
We have once more documented grave #HumanRightsViolations : mass #interceptions in all #Mediterranean regions, including within #European Search and Rescue zones; attacks on #migrant boats and rescuers in the Aegean and the Central Med; delays in rescues, in particular by #Malta.
We know this statistical overview can't mirror the thousands of individual struggles behind these figures. We dedicate our work to those who lost their lives while trying to reach a place of safety. With each Alarm Phone shift, we remove a brick from a wall and add it to a bridge
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