Refugees aim for Olympic squad
With the Olympic Games just two months away, refugee athletes are putting everything they have into reaching the goal of competing on the team in Tokyo.
With the Olympic Games just two months away, refugee athletes are putting everything they have into reaching the goal of competing on the team in Tokyo.
Every evening, dozens of undocumented Moroccans attempt to enter the port of Melilla to board ferries bound for Malaga, Almeria or Motril, in southern Spain. For these young people, the sea is the only way out of the Spanish enclave1
Hundreds of young Moroccans live in the Spanish enclave of Melilla without documents. Sleeping in abandoned buildings or on cliffs in makeshift shelters, they say they have been abandoned by Spain.
While most of the thousands of migrants who entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta were deported, local Spanish officials struggle to care for the minors it cannot send back across the border to Morocco.
An Iranian asylum seeker has been cleared of smuggling charges in the UK after spending 17 months in prison. Fouad Kakaei had helped to steer a boat across the English Channel.