A 30-year-old Ivorian citizen has filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights; asking for Italy to be condemned over the "inhuman and degrading conditions" in which he has been forced to live whilst working on the harvest.
The Libyan Red Crescent says the bodies of 17 people were washed ashore in western Libya on Tuesday.
Migrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East continue to cross the border from Poland into Germany. Belarus, which is accused of pushing the migrants towards the EU, has passed a law blocking their return.
Spanish authorities have dismantled an organization offering false documents to migrants hoping to make it to mainland Europe. 16 Senegalese suspects were arrested.
The Greek government has taken over the management of the cash assistance programme for asylum seekers in Greece from the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).