Berlin, 7 July 2026 – On 3 July, the Sea-Watch 5 departed for a rescue mission in the central Mediterranean for the first time since it was fired upon in May. At the same time, Sea-Watch filed an urgent application with the Berlin Administrative Court seeking to oblige the German government to take effective measures…
On 29 June, the new Netflix film “23,000 Lives” will have its world premiere at Filmfest München. From 17 July, it will be available worldwide on Netflix. The film tells the story of the Iuventa, a German rescue ship that saved people fleeing across the central Mediterranean until Italian authorities seized the vessel and brought…
The notorious former Libyan prison director Osama Najim, known as Almasri, was sentenced on 21 June 2026 by the Criminal Court in Tripoli, Libya, to seven years and four months in prison for “violating the rights of prisoners”. Italy’s right wing is celebrating the verdict, claiming that justice has run its course and that the…
On Sunday, 7 June 2026, at least eleven people died in a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean, around 45 nautical miles off Malta, within the Maltese search and rescue area. Around 60 people were reportedly in distress. When the Sea-Watch monitoring aircraft Seabird 1 arrived on scene, no remnants of the boat were visible. Survivors…
Berlin/Lampedusa, June 4, 2026 — Sea-Watch is putting a new rescue vessel into service: With the Aurora 2, the organization is responding to the repeated detentions of civilian rescue ships by the Italian authorities. Now, Sea-Watch will remain operational even when one of its ships is detained. While one ship is blocked in port, the other will…
