Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that it treated 68 people who had been injured during a mass arrest some days prior in Libya. This proves once again "how migrants are subject to random and arbitrary detention," MSF operations1
An Iranian man has been swept away and has drowned in a swollen river after violent storms raged across Greece. A woman is also missing, as the search for her continues on Thursday.
The Italian coast guard on Tuesday ordered another administrative detention for the migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking.
The term borrowed from English describes forcing migrants and asylum seekers away from a state border. The "Non-Word of the Year" is awarded for infamous language.
A German court has found a Syrian former army colonel guilty of crimes against humanity, handing him a life sentence. The trial is the first to take place anywhere examining state-sponsored torture in Syrian Civil War.