Our 8-week report is out! It covers the period 28 Oct. to 22 Dec. 2019. We engaged in 95 distress cases in the #Mediterranean, involving around 3,184 migrant travellers, of whom about 1,869 reached #Europe. Over 300 people lost their lives or went missing. alarmphone.org/en/2020/01/01/…
#Aegean Sea: 60 distress cases, involving over 1,347 individuals. 38 boats with over 834 individuals on board reached #Greece. 22 boats with over 513 individuals were returned to #Turkey. We fear that at least 5 cases involved illegal push/pull back practices.
Central #Med: 19 distress cases, involving about 1,269 people. 13 boats with 786 people on board were rescued to #Europe, 9 of them by the civil fleet. 3 boats with about 219 people were returned to #Libya. 3 boats with 264 people on board capsized or went missing.
Western #Med: 16 distress cases, invol. about 568 people. 9 boats with about 249 people were rescued to #Spain, 7 to the #Canaries. 6 boats with 246 people on board were returned to #Morocco, including one that capsized, leaving 7 people dead. 1 boat with 73 people went missing.
Over the past 8 weeks we have once more documented how #Europe and its allies engaged in grave human rights violations at sea, such as push/pull back operations in the central and eastern Mediterranean, refoulement by proxy, or delayed rescue operations. #borderskill #safepassage
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