Searching and rescuing refugees in distress — is this a crime?
Is saving lives a crime? The trial of human rights defenders begins in Greece
Tag: refugees
Happy Christmas and welcome to the streets
As 2022 draws to a close so does the ESTIA programme in Greece.
15 people pushed back to Turkey
On the 15th of December, Alarm Phone received a call from 15 people stranded on Lipsi, a small island between Leros and Samos.
Choose Truth: former Choose Love employees speak out
In December 2021, Choose Love cut funding to charities offering vital support to refugees and migrants in Calais and Dunkirk.
Unaccompanied minors left living on the streets in Paris
Some of them have been there for four months.
France: Lyon squat evicted in 7am raid
After months of threats from oil supergiant TotalEnergies, the abandoned school on Jean Bouin street was cleared out by a huge police operation yesterday, sparking alarm over the use of disproportionate force.
Reflections on Afghanistan
It rained every afternoon on the island.
Deliberate Denial of Food in Hungarian Detention Centres
The UN Human Rights Office (UNHRO) has reported that people detained in Hungarian detention centers have been deliberately deprived of food if their application for asylum is denied.
Morocco: at least 16 refugee people die in truck accident
Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar or the western Mediterranean in unstable boats is something that comes at the end of a painful and traumatic journey that for many carries a number of abuses, exploitation from all sides and violent treatment, but also accidents.
Netherlands: man fleeing homophobic violence denied asylum as he is ‘not gay enough’
A man fleeing anti-gay violence has been denied asylum seeker status in the Netherlands based on an assessment by the IND (The Immigration and Naturalisation Department) which found him to be “not gay enough”: in this exact words.
Recent Articles
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
