A preliminary hearings judge (GUP) in the Sicilian city of Palermo has sentenced two men to a 20-year prison term for allegedly detaining and torturing migrants waiting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, in the Zuhara prison1
A joint police operation between Greek and German forces has resulted in one arrest and four raided locations belonging to a smuggling ring operating between Germany and Greece.
Officials at the UK Home Office admitted that they are spending more than €5 million a day to house asylum seekers and refugees in temporary hotel accommodation. The information came as the accommodation conditions were being scrut1
A meeting of EU interior ministers in France on February 3, resulted in the establishment of a new Schengen Council as well as proposals to get member states to either accept migration quotas or pay towards supporting other members1
Forty-one people were rescued alive and one body was recovered from a shipwreck off the Canary Islands on Wednesday. Survivors reported that 16 others remain missing.