 | Lampedusa: Winnie’s husband beaten by the police
His story touched many Italians some weeks ago, when his wife Winnie, a 23 year old Dutch lady, came to Lampedusa to take her 29 year old husband back. But now the dream of their love story turned into a nightmare. Nizar was beaten up by the police at the reception centre of Lampedusa, and was then arrested |
 | Forced deportations to Lampedusa. A Gaddafi's reprisal for the bombardments?
They are arrested in the African neighbourhoods of Tripoli by Gaddafi’s soldiers and forced to embark for Lampedusa. The ticket is on the house, provided by the regime. Definitely not voyages of hope, the crossings of the Mediterranean look more like actual mass deportations of Africans from Libya. Systematically organized by the army of the dictatorship, in reprisal for the Nato's bombardments |
 | Revolutionaries and racists? The rebels’ massacres
We already know the crimes committed by Gaddafi’s troops. But nobody wants to talk about the crimes perpetrated by the rebels. Maybe because the rebels’ racism is a taboo too big to face. Or perhaps because the correspondents in Benghazi were not able to notice anything in person, since they were on the wrong side of the front to do it |
 | Let us enter! Journalists expelled from the Italian deportation centres
In Italy now, there isn’t just an emergency for the landings, but also emergency for information. Apart from deporting the Tunisians detained in the centres of identification and deportation in half of Italy, the Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, has in fact decided to expel journalists as well |
 | Free like the wind. The borders of modernity called Ventimiglia
In 2011 mobility is an unavoidable part of the dimension of modernity. There is no need to be a labourer or a refugee in order to move from one side of the world to the other. It’s sufficient to be children of our times to feel the need to leave and become someone different. To recognize that, is to recognize that there aren’t civilised people nor barbaric people |
 | Caught in the crossfire. Foreigners in Libya during the revolution
Nashat didn’t have the time to pack his luggage when he escaped.He only managed to take the photograph of his children. He asks me to show it on television so that his family in Banisuif, in Egypt, may know that he’s still alive. A crowd forms around him. They are all Egyptians and they are thousands, all stranded in the industrial harbour of Misratah |
 | "Partir Loin". Music, let’s go!
What if a song helped us more than a political analysis to understand what’s going on at Lampedusa? What are the potentials of a country in which the big rap hits encourage young people to travel? Where mass culture says that it’s necessary to travel far away, leave, evade, as if from a prison, in order to see the world |
 | Tunisians’ revolt at the deportation centres. Exclusive photos
After two days of riots, the deportation centre of Gradisca is literally out of service. There’s only one cell left for 100 detainees, and many are forced to eat and sleep rough on the floor, cramped in the corridors and in the dining hall, where they are all locked up the entire day. Today we are able to show you the exclusive images of this degradation |
 | Tunisians remember victims of perilous journey to Europe
A reportage of Neil Curry broadcasted by the Cnn. Curry went in the city of Sedouikech and there he met the families' member of a group of 30 Tunians died after a ship of the Tunisian Navy hit a migrants' boat on its route to Lampedusa |
 | Waiting for Paris. Journey to Lampedusa with the Tunisians
The Meridiana’s flight for Palermo has taken off on time at 12,30. Amongst today’s passengers there’s also Fouad Ben Maguer. He’s one of the Tunisians who arrived on the island these days. But unlike all the others he has come from Paris. What brought him here is the frail hope that his brother may have saved himself |
 | Libya: pushed back migrants speak out from the Sahara
We reached them by phone. They are 38 Somalis, detained in a prison situated in the middle of the Libyan desert, a thousand kilometres south of Tripoli, where they have ended up after having been pushed back to Libya on the 30th August
Do they know? JRS Malta releases a new report on Libya |
 | The evidence of tortures against refugees in Libya
We got the pictures of 50 Somalis stabbed with knives by the Libyan police, after a riot in a detention centre near Benghazi. Libyan ambassador in Mogadishu, Rabiic Canshuur, denied the report. This time, it will be a bit more difficult to deny these photos |
 | Forced labour and tortures for repatriated Eritreans
Exclusive: three witnesses speak out. Caught by the Libyan police on the route to Lampedusa, they were repatriated in 2004 on a flight paied by Italy. And the same could happen to the Eritreans deported from Italy to Libya in these days
VIDEO Eritrea: voices of torture
Eritrea: hopes betrayed by the regime repression
Service for life: the Infinite Conscription in Eritrea
Refoulement: 1.409 migrants pushed back to Libya
Letters from the Eritreans in Tripoli
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 | The Northern Jungle. Reportage from Calais and London
A documentary by Vincent Nguyen and Jean-Sebastien Desbordes. With the voices of the Eritrean refugees, the truck drivers, the smugglers, and the social workers
For more info, download the report La loi de la jungle |
 | Libya: externalize the borders to externalize asylum?
While more than 1.000 migrants have been deported to Libya from the Italian patrols, Tripoli is considering to sign the Geneva Convention. The first step to the externalization of asylum. Mass deportations and some resettlements to appease the EU coscience |
 | The massacre: 459 deaths in the first 6 months of 2009
The number of deaths at the border fell for the first time over the last three years. In the first semester of 2008, the victims were 985. The main reason is the objective decrease in the number of arrivals, particularly in Italy and Spain |
 | 74 Eritrean Refugees Sent Back to Libya on 1stJuly
We received an appeal from the Eritrean community in Tripoli. The passengers of the vessel which was denied entrance off the coast of Lampedusa, were Eritrean: Eritrean refugees who now risk being repatriated or held indeterminately in Libyan prisons |
 | Sent back to Libya: Exclusive Photos from Paris Match
There were two French journalists, aboard the Italian Coastguard patrol boat which returned 90 migrants rescued from the high seas to Tripoli on 13th May, 2009. Here are their exclusive photos which show the conditions of the deportation |
 | Lampedusa: Tunisians beaten by the Italian police
On 18th February 2009, a riot broke out leaded by the Tunisians detainees after one month of detention in inhuman conditions. The Italian police answered back by beating tens of inmates. Today we are able to make you listen to the voices of the witnesses of that violence |
 | Egypt: on the route of the Eritrean diaspora to Israel
Asmara, Cairo, Tripoli, Asmara. Father Austin glances through a dozen white envelopes. He checks the addresses written in pen. There are no stamps. These are the letters of Eritrean prisoners of Burg el Arab. They were arrested in Egypt on their way to the Jewish State |
 | Brave Captains. Lampedusa's fishermen talk
"We are in the same area. It is our fishing zone, and they pass through it". Almost every day, Sicilian fishermen cross the migrants' boats on their route to Lampedusa. And often they rescue them. Last time it happened on 28th November 2008. With a stormy sea and waves eight meters high |
 | Guantanamo Libya: the new Italian border police
The iron door is closed. From the small loophole I see the faces of two African guys and one Egyptian. I can't stand the acrid smell coming from the holding cells. I ask them to move. Now I can see the whole room, three meters per eight. There are about thirty people inside |
 | Israel: the new route for Eritreans refugees
Instead of the Libyan prisons and the death in the sea they prefer the Jewish state. In 2007, according to the UNHCR, about 5,000 asylum seekers entered Israel. Meanwhile, Egypt reinforced its control devices, allowing the border police to open fire on the migrants |
 | Trapped in Greece: illegal entry, illegal exit
Every time I enter the sea, I feel anguish. And I think it is not normal. I walk with caution, in a small bay of the Greek island of Samos, full of tourists. I don’t wear shoes. And I'm afraid to touch a dead body underwater. I have in mind the pictures I saw one week ago in Lesvos |
 | Patras: ECHR declared admissible the case of 35 refugees
Border Sahara: the detention centres in the Libyan desert
Libya: reportage from the detention centre of Misratah
Tunisia: the dictatorship south of Lampedusa
Lifes in limbo. Migrants and refugees in Cyprus
Istanbul on the way of African migrations
The situation of exiles on the English Channel
Egypt: Deadly journeys through the desert
Held in Ukraine, immigrants cling to Europe dream |
