This afternoon, the Sea-Watch rescue vessel Aurora rescued 32 people from the Miskar gas platform in the central Mediterranean, where they had been stranded since Saturday, 1 March 2025. Despite the imminent emergency, the informed European authorities had not initiated rescue operations, even though the people were stranded in international waters on the border of…
The sea rescue organizations Sea-Eye and Sea-Watch have launched a joint rescue operation in the central Mediterranean. With the rescue ship Sea-Eye 4, a crew of 28 members of both organizations is on its way to one of the deadliest borders in the world. One week before the German parliamentary elections, the two German organizations…
Recent reports have revealed that several activists and journalists critical of Italy’s migration policies have been targeted with advanced spyware. Notably, human rights advocate David Yambio, civil search and rescue organizer Luca Casarini, and Libyan activist Husam El Gomati received notifications from tech companies like Apple and WhatsApp, alerting them to potential spyware attacks. The…
The sea rescue organization Sea-Watch is initiating legal action against German border controls. With the renewed extension of controls since September 2024 and the latest proposals by CDU chairman Friedrich Merz, Sea-Watch believes that not only central principles of the European Union but also fundamental human rights have been violated. The organization is, therefore, calling…
The sea rescue organization Sea-Watch has filed criminal charges against Italian authorities with the public prosecutor’s office in Agrigento, including multiple counts of negligent manslaughter. On September 2, Sea-Watch reported an emergency to the Italian Coast Guard, which later suffered a shipwreck. Twenty-one people drowned before Italian authorities took rescue measures. The complaint, which is…
