…over 834 individuals on board reached Greece. 22 boats with over 513 individuals were returned to Turkey. We fear that at least 5 cases involved illegal push/pull back practices. Central…
„Xenophobia threatens to undermine Sudan’s revolution“
…attempt to reach Europe and find safety there. Very few of them, however, actually make it into Europe. At the height of the migration push towards Europe in 2015 about…
Weitere Kämpfe in Burkina Faso
…and lasted several hours before troops, backed by the air force, drove the attackers back, the army said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but previous violence in…
US-Rückzug aus Sahara und Sahel?
…erhielten, werden ohne diese Unterstützung kaum mehr operationsfähig sein. The discussions of a large-scale pullback from West Africa include abandoning a recently built $110 million drone base in Niger and…
EU organisiert Push-back nach Libyen mit privaten Frachtschiffen
…ill-treatment, including torture. This case exemplifies a recurrent practice that we refer to as ‘privatised push-back’. This new strategy has been implemented by Italy, in collaboration with the LYCG, since…
„Frontex stationiert Langstreckendrohnen im Mittelmeer“
…unmenschlichen oder erniedrigenden Behandlung besteht. Frontex könnte das Verbot solcher „Push backs“ durch die Zusammenarbeit mit der libyschen Küstenwache umgehen. Seenotrettungsorganisationen sprechen deshalb von sogenannten „Pull backs“. Telepolis | 17.12.2019…
„Push-Backs throughout Europe’s borders“
In June this year we have launched the Push-Back Map, documenting and denouncing the state practice of push-back, denying the freedom of movement, protection and dignity for everyone crossing borders…
Anmerkungen zu Hamid Dabashi, Are the Arab revolutions back?
…defiance. Defiance of abusive state powers and their foreign backers – think of the junta in Egypt and their US and Israeli supporters, or Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and…
Alarmphone: Four days of Struggle against Mass Push-Backs to Libya and Death at Sea
…people were rescued to Europe, 287 by NGO vessels and 133 by the Maltese coastguards, and about 190 people were intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguards and forced back to…
Kroatien: Schüsse auf People-in-transit
Das Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMT) hat am 19.11. eine Pressemitteilung ins Netz gestellt, die den Gebrauch von Schusswaffen bei den Push-Back-Aktivitäten der kroatischen Polizei beschreibt. On Saturday 16th November…