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). |
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 RamiĆ³ 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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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. |
Street artist Banksy is raffling one of his sculptures of a remote-control boat filled with refugees (titled How heavy it weighs), which featured in his “bemusement” theme park Dismaland, for a minimum donation of £2 ($2.50) to the charity Help Refugees, provided you can guess how much it weighs. It’s on display at the pop-up Help Refugees shop, 30 Fouberts Place, Carnaby Street, London until competition closes on December 22. Photo: Banksy (@banksy).
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Mediterranean Sea: People rest onboard the rescue ship Aquarius, which the NGOs SOS MĆ©diterranĆ©e and MĆ©decins Sans FrontiĆØres operate off the coast of Libya. Photo: Maud Veith/AFP/Getty Images.
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An aerial view showing French artist Saype’s giant land art painting Message From Future in Parc de la Perle du Lac, Geneva, Switzerland which he painted to support the cause of the NGO SOS MĆ©diterranĆ©e, which specialises in the rescue of migrants at sea. Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini.
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Mediterranean Sea: The NGO Proactiva Open Arms’ migrant rescue boat “Astral”. Photo: Juan Medina/Reuters.
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Barcelona, Spain: Members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms place a lifejacket on a statue of Christopher Columbus on the day their ship arrives carrying 60 people rescued off Libya. Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP.
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A migrant sits on the deck of the boat of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms, where 59 migrants from Libya wait to dock in Barcelona, Spain. Photo: AFP/Olmo Calvo.
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Mediterranean Sea: Migrants chat onboard a vessel of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms. The Spanish NGO said it had rescued 59 migrants as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya and would dock in Barcelona in Spain after Italy and Malta refused access. Photo: Olmo Calvo/AFP/Getty Images.
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People leap into the water as they are helped by an NGO rescue operation in the Mediterranean near Libya. Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP.
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Beirut, Lebanon: An installation of wedding dresses by Lebanese artist Mireille HoneĆÆn and ABAAD NGO on Beirut’s Corniche, denouncing the article 522 of Lebanon’s penal code allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free. Photo: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images.
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