#Niger refugees ask justice
One of the poorest countries in the world has accepted to host temporarily refugees evacuated from #Libya while while EU countries process their asylum cases. Refugees from #Eritrea#Somalia#Sudan & #Ethiopia have been waiting for more than 1 year now
#Niger Today in #Niamey, hundreds refugees decided to protest to ask for justice and support. "We left our country to find peace and freedom, but we never get durable solution by the UN @Refugees agency. Why EU resettlement promises are not respected?"
⬇ ⬇ Refugees in #Niger prepared this letter asking for solutions. Men, women and children who have survived from Libya are now kept in limbo without being able to start their lives. Why EU countries like #France, #Germany or #Sweden are not respecting their agreement?
#Niamey While #Refugees tried to reach the American and French embassies to deliver their call, National Police of Niger dispersed protesters with tear gas.
Info from #Niamey confirmed that among the group who was protesting today, there are 4 refugees, under the UN @Refugees agency, who are now at Yantala police station.
@Refugees The Niger State Police has arrested 4 refugees, including 2 ladies (one under 18) and 2 men. They are now detained at Yantala police station. Is UN @Refugees agency in #Niamey following?
For years people have been illegally sent back from #Italy to #Greece in secret prisons on private ships.
After months of investigating, we’ve found where asylum seekers, including children, are being detained.
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While European passengers are enjoying their holiday trips on board #Superfast ferries, below deck - in metal boxes & dark rooms - asylum seekers from #Afghanistan#Syria & #Iraq are detained.
This metal box is next to where trucks are parked - an area that is considered to be unsafe for passengers during the journey.
I just returned from #Turkey. I have spent days with Afghan & Syrian communities in Istanbul & at the border with #Bulgaria. I spoke with lawyers & local activists & archived evidences of pushbacks filmed by refugees who managed to survive violence & repression.
A few thoughts.
For the last years, #Turkey is the 1st address where Afghan refugees either stay permanently or wait at a transit point to cross to #Europe. Besides exploitation by employers & lack of access to public services, they are now facing the threat of detention or deportation to #Iran.
You’ll find them in #Zeytinburnu where restaurants employ a steady stream of runaways, including minors. I met young couples who already paid over the odds for passage over #Iran's treacherous mountains, sometimes waist-deep in snow & are now saving for another perilous journey.
[Thread] Here is a collection of most racist coverage of #Russia's attack on #Ukraine. We are being told who deserves war, missiles, & who looks like a good refugee.
This only serves to mislead viewers & decontextualise conflicts. Hypocrisy & its randomness..
“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze @BBCWorld
"This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city".
Spero abbiate il tempo di leggere la nostra inchiesta su nave #Caprera, mandata dall'Italia in Libia per combattere il traffico di esseri umani. Alcuni dei suoi marinai hanno organizzato un carico di contrabbando + violato l'embargo UN sulle armi nytimes.com/2020/09/28/wor…
L'ex ministro degli interni italiano Matteo Salvini a Tripoli aveva elogiato l'equipaggio della nave Caprera per aver impedito a + 7.000 persone di raggiungere l'Europa.
L'unico problema: la Caprera stessa stava organizzando un carico di contrabbando verso l´Europa.
Una prova fondamentale per gli investigatori sono le foto di una festa di addio. Le foto, condivise sul gruppo WhatsApp di nave Caprera, mostrano un sorridente Corbisiero seduto davanti a una grande torta al cioccolato.
Dietro di lui i sacchi di sigarette di contrabbando.
I hope you’ll take the time to read our full investigation on how #Italy sent a warship to #Libya to fight trafficking &
🇮🇹 sailors gathered a cargo of contraband + broke a UN arms embargo.
#Italy's former interior minister Matteo Salvini praised the ship Caprera after it stopped ++ than 7,000 people from reaching Europe.
There was just one problem: the #Caprera was itself smuggling contraband to #Europe.
A key piece of evidence for investigators are photos from a farewell party... Photographs shared on the ship’s WhatsApp group showed a grinning Mr. Corbisiero sitting before a large chocolate cake... Behind him were several sacks of contraband cigarettes.
A local source in #Khoms reported that following disembarkation (70 people) a shooting happened — 5 people were shot, 2 died + other injured. Local IOM team was on the ground.
Survivors have been brought to Souq Al-Khamis detention centre, other escaped.
#Libya Staff from @IOM_Libya, reported that local authorities in #Khoms started shooting when the migrants attempted to escape from the disembarkation point.
#Libya Aboh Ishag, 20 years old from #Darfur#Sudan killed in #Khoms after being intercepted & forcibly brought back by the Libyan coast guard equipped & financed by the EU. Killed as he refused to be taken back to a detention center where torture & exploitation are widespread.