POS REGGIO CALABRIA – SATURDAY 9 JUNE h 0800 The 232 people on board have been at sea for more than 72 hours now, of which two days under bad sea conditions. People are becoming increasingly weakened. The situation is indicative of a worrying lack of search and rescue assets in the Central Mediterranean Sea.…
DetailsOn Friday, 25.05.2018, the Sea-Watch 3 was involved in the rescue of more than 400 people from three rubber boats in distress. Once more the EU-funded, so-called Libyan Coast Guard (LYCG) intervened in rescue operations and turned a manageable situation into deadly chaos. With already 157 people from a previous rescue on board, Sea-Watch 3…
DetailsBerlin, 08.05.2018 For the first time legal steps against illegal pull-back actions: Sea-Watch supports survivors in court proceedings against Italy 17 survivors of the fatal boat accident of 6 November 2017 go to the European Court of Human Rights with the support of several human rights organisations and thus take legal action against the illegal…
DetailsIn the last year alone, more than 3,000 people have drowned in the Central Mediterranean Sea; in 2018, more than 500 have lost their lives already. Without the reconnaissance aircraft “Moonbird”, deployed by Sea-Watch and the Swiss Humanitarian Pilots Initiative (HPI), there would have been 1000 more deaths in 2017 alone. Time and again the…
DetailsOn Saturday, 21th of April, Sea-Watch rescued a rubber boat 65 nautical miles north off the Libyan coast in a difficult operation with moments of tension when people, crammed into the dinghy, saw the arrival of the Libyan Coast Guard, who announced intentions to bring them back to Libya. People started to jump into the water, throwing…
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