After more than 80 people tested positive for COVID-19 at the Pournara migrant camp, Cypriot health authorities have moved hundreds of migrants to another location. The living conditions at Pournara had been denounced by MPs after a1
Migrants in Belarus were beaten, threatened, forced to pay extortionate sums for food and water by soldiers, according to reports gathered by UN observers. Migrants were also reportedly forced to cross the border into Poland.
Nearly 350 migrants were rescued by the crew of the humanitarian rescue ship Geo Barents in several operations between Wednesday and early Thursday morning. The total number of migrants on the ship is now more than 450.
More than 160 migrants died off Libya over the past week, according to the UN. The total number of migrants who perished on the Central Mediterranean route this year is now over 1,500.
Italy's highest court has ruled that two migrants had the right to refuse to be taken back to Libya after being rescued at sea. Because Libya cannot be considered safe, they had the right to pressure a ship's crew to turn towards It1