At 10:15 pm yesterday, 19 June 2018, the Diciotti ship of the Italian Cost Guard docked at the Port of Pozzallo. Previously, 11 people had already been disembarked for their worsening conditions (1 TB patient, 4 pregnant women and 6 minors). People started to get off the ship at about 1:10 am: the first to… Read more »
Yesterday 93 people disembarked in Pozzallo ( 86 of them were from Eritrea and 7 from other sub –Saharan countries. Among these, there were 12 minors and 18 women one of whom was five-month pregnant. It has been reported that people from Eritrea have been hold in a big warehouse, where more than thousand people were forced to live… Read more »
This morning 72 people, including 3 women and 14 minors, arrived from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, South Sudan and Guinea. Migrants were rescued over the course of two different events. The first group floated in the sea for two days on a wooden boat before coming across the Everest fishing vessel on to which they… Read more »
This morning 72 people, including 3 women and 14 minors, arrived from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, South Sudan and Guinea. Migrants were rescued over the course of two different events. The first group floated in the sea for two days on a wooden boat before coming across the Everest fishing vessel on to which they… Read more »
I stayed in Libia for ten months. I spent all my detention in a warehouses close to Tripoli run by a smuggler, who was a ruthless man. This man is Eritrean but he is known as Alid and helps the Libyans. Especially Somali and Eritreans are detained- incarcerated there. I believe that people end up… Read more »
As soon as I arrived in Sabha, I was detained at an informal prison called “Osopo Prison” run by Ghanaian traffickers. They put me in a cell with 80 other people, every day I suffered beating and the torture of the “Falaka” (beating on the soles of the feet). Every week my relatives were forced… Read more »