Malta’s deadly non-assistance in the Central Mediterranean Sea

A joint statement by Alarm Phone, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Sea-Watch. Malta has once more neglected its legal obligations under the law of the sea and abandoned 14 persons in distress at sea resulting into one death. Civil society groups Alarm Phone, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Sea-Watch, all operating…

Sea-Watch vs. Frontex

Today, the hearing in the case of Sea-Watch against Frontex will take place before the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg. The civil sea rescue organization filed a lawsuit in April 2022. Previously, the border agency had refused a Freedom of information (FOI) request. The release of the withheld information is intended to…

Airborne Annual Report 2022

In 2022, 105,131 people arrived to Italy by sea, mainly from Tunisia and Libya. In Malta, however, the arrivals were only 444 people. In order to fully put these arrival figures into perspective, the mortality figures as well as numbers of illegal returns (pullbacks) committed by the Tunisian and the so-called Libyan Coast Guard in…