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We are Sea-Watch: Max from the Fundraising Team

Max has been with Sea-Watch for two years. In the fundraising team, he is the contact person for our supporting members. Today he tells us how he came to Sea-Watch, why it needs supporting members at all and what his most memorable moments with Sea-Watch have been so far.     Hi Max. You have…

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Airborne Monthly Factsheet October 2021

This factsheet outlines a summary of distress cases witnessed in October 2021 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crews with their aircraft Seabird*. In October 2021 we conducted 9 operations, with a total flight time of 55 hours and 09 minutes. We spotted at least 892 persons in distress, aboard 17 different boats. Download Full Report Overview of boats in distress…

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Sea-Watch 3 rescues 93 people from distress at sea

Sea-Watch 3, which left for its Christmas operation only yesterday evening, was able to rescue 93 people from a wooden boat in distress today. Last week alone, at least 160 people drowned off the coast of Libya while trying to escape. In the early morning of Dec. 24, 2021, the crew of Sea-Watch 3 sighted…

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Winter on the Mediterranean

The conditions for people fleeing Libya are intolerable. Serious human rights violations have been thoroughly documented and evidenced for years by civil society, human rights organisations, intergovernmental organisations as well as refugees themselves. Since October 2nd, 2021, after Libyan police and military units carried out a large-scale crackdown and arbitrarily arrested thousands of people and…

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Solidarity is not a crime – Sea-Watch Legal Aid Fund

November 2018, a courtroom in Brussels. The defendants: eleven people, most with a migration background. Their crime: solidarity. The verdict: guilty. Since 2017, a trial has been ongoing in Belgium against eleven people accused of human trafficking and participation in a criminal organisation. Among the accused are journalists and social workers who opened their homes…

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