Spanish NGO rescue ship Open Arms counted at least six people dead by drowning among 120 migrants it rescued from the waters of the central Mediterranean after their dinghy sunk. Though the SOS had been sent out two days ago, a baby aged six months died today, onboard the vessel, vainly waiting for rescue. Photo: Oscar Camps (@campsoscar). |
A boy walks among pairs of shoes at the premises of an NGO next to the Mória camp for refugees and migrants, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Photo: Elias Marcou/Reuters.
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Marjan Hosini, 3, warms her hands over hot coal as her mother Yasamin, 25, pours tea into cups inside their temporary shelter at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Mória camp, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Marjan’s father, Talibshah Hosini, played some tough roles as an actor in Afghanistan before he fled. None was as hard as his family’s real-life fight for survival on Lesbos. Photo: Alkis Konstantinidis and Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters.
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A migrant girl warms herself by the fire near the banks of Maritsa/Evros river, natural border between Turkey and Greece, near Edirne, Turkey. Photo: Marko Đurića/Reuters.
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German captain of rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 Carola Rackete was being awarded the “Gold Medal of Honour” from Catalonia’s Parliament President Roger Torrent i Ramió in Barcelona, Spain for her rescue missions in the Mediterranean. Photo: Albert Gea/Reuters.
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A migrant reacts as he disembarks the Spanish rescue ship Open Arms, after it arrived in Lampedusa, Italy. Photo: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters.
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Spanish rescue ship Open Arms with migrants aboard arrives in Lampedusa, Italy after 19-day standoff. Photo: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters.
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Spanish migrant rescue ship Open Arms lies anchored close to the Italian shore, as people relax on the beach in Lampedusa, Italy August 17, 2019. Photo: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters.
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A migrant reads verses of the Quran aboard the Open Arms, a Spanish charity boat, as it arrives near the coast of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea, Thursday, August 15, 2019. A Spanish aid boat with 147 rescued migrants aboard is anchored off the southern Italian island as Italy’s far-right interior minister continues to refuse permission for the boat to dock. Photo: Francisco Gentico/AP.
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An Italian examining judge of Agrigento ruled that the charges against Carola Rackete (pictured above as leaves court after she was arrested for forcing her way into a Sicilian port carrying migrants she had rescued off the Libyan coast) did not hold water, so to say, because, in leading the migrants to Lampedusa, she obeyed to international humanitarian law. That means that the Sea-Watch 3 humanitarian ship’s skipper is free to go and... leave the country, as the same authorities which put her under house arrest have already issued an expulsion order for her. However, even the new “edict” will have to be approved by the judicial authorities. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFP/Getty Images.
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The captain of a German NGO rescue ship carrying 42 migrants has been arrested after more than two weeks in a standoff with Italian authorities. Carola Rackete reached Lampedusa, Sicily, on Saturday in defiance of a ban issued by Italy’s far-right interior minister. She was greeted by lengthy applause from hundreds of people who arrived on the quay to support her. [Read more].
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The fishing vessel that sank on April 18, 2015 trapping hundreds of migrants, is installed by artist Christoph Büchel in Venice’s former shipyards as part of the 58th Biennale. Photo: David Levene/The Guardian.
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German NGO rescue ship Sea Watch decided to file a case at the European Human Rights Court against Italy for refusing to allow its ship carrying 47 rescued migrants to dock. Sea Watch’s spokesman Ruben Neugebauer points the finger against Italy’s far-right interior minister, who would be “taking the people on board as political hostages”. The Po Valley strongman’s hardline attitude was also harshly contested by Italian Association for Infant Mental Health (AISMI): “As infant mental health workers we reiterate the urgency of immediately landing migrants, so as to help them with the necessary health and psychological care, especially children and adolescents. Their unwarranted and inadmissible detention onboard the Sea Watch represents a further abuse perpetrated against them — specifically by Italian authorities, which instead have the duty of safeguarding the physical and psychological health of anyone is found on Italian territory”, AISMI President Giampaolo Nicolais said.
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A street art graffiti by British artist Banksy. Credit: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images.
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Italy’s Democratic Party delegation finally climbed aboard the NGO rescue ship Sea Watch, which is anchored, with 47 asylum seekers (among them there are at least 13 minors), in waters close to the Sicilian city of Siracusa, Italy since a week ago, due to the refusal of the far-right interior minister to give it access to Italy’s ports.
All Italy’s parties apparently agree that for this, as for what occurred with the vessel Diciotti last August, the far-right interior minister should be prosecuted and put on trial. |
Málaga, Spain: Women are helped to disembark from a migrant rescue vessel. The Spanish Maritime Rescue Service saved 183 people from dinghies and brought them to the harbour, where they were assisted by the Cruz Roja Española (Spanish Red Cross). Photo: Jesús Mérida/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock.
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Mediterranean Sea: A migrant takes a selfie with an NGO volunteer as he and others prepare to be transferred on to a Maltese vessel following the announcement that Malta has reached a deal with other EU member states to allow migrants onboard to disembark. Photo: Federico Scoppa/AFP/Getty Images.
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Málaga, Spain: A woman and her child disembark from a Spanish coastguard vessel after being rescued from an inflatable boat carrying 188 people. Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images.
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Málaga, Spain: A group of people wait to disembark from a rescue ship after attempting to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa. Photo: Jon Nazca/Reuters.
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Rome, Italy: An African migrant dressed as Santa Claus stands outside an abandoned penicillin factory during an eviction by police. About 500 people lived in the abandoned building including African migrants, Italians and Roma families. Photo: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images.
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