At least 117 refugees drowned trying to reach Europe in the last 12 days

Activists vow to continue the fight against Fortress Europe’s deadly border regime ACTIVISTS vowed to continue to fight against Europe’s deadly border regime today, following the deaths of at least 117 refugees at sea in the past 12 days. Thirty-six people are feared to have lost their lives in a shipwreck that occurred off the

‘They came for us in the middle of the night’

YAMBIO DAVID OLIVER tells The Civil Fleet how the Libyan cops violently raided his protest camp and sent hundreds to one of the country’s condemned migrant detention centres “WE ARE living in perpetual fear of what might happen next,” Yambio David Oliver, a 24-year-old South Sudanese refugee stuck in Libya, told The Civil Fleet today.

‘The EU must be held accountable for the crimes it has committed against people trying to reach its borders’

Refugee turned activist YAMBIO DAVID OLIVER tells The Civil Fleet what led to the protests outside a UNHCR registration centre in Tripoli Europe must be held accountable for the human rights abuses committed against the people trying to reach safety across its borders, refugees trapped in Libya told The Civil Fleet today. A group of

‘It is absolutely necessary for a civil eye to be present in Aegean Sea’

The Mare Liberum’s Marie and Abby tell The Civil Fleet how European governments have tried to stop the ship and her crew from carrying out their human rights monitoring missions, and why they must return to the sea today despite many threats to the mission IT’S BEEN close to two years since the activist crew

‘There were too many people on the rubber boat, and we were too few’

Open Arms SAR Coordinator DAVID LLADO tells The Civil Fleet about the moment 118 refugees fell into sea when their boat split in half and how his team rescued them RIGHT at the moment when the Open Arms‘ rescuers began transferring the first person onto a rigid-hull inflatable boat (Rhib), the back of the refugees’

‘This would not have happened if the people we found were white’

LEA REISNER tells The Civil Fleet about the Louise Michel, a feminist refugee rescue ship named after the famous anarchist and funded by the world’s most elusive street-art star — and how the civil fleet came to its aid when Europe abandoned it “THE revolt of the tribes was deadly serious,” wrote the French anarchist

‘I don’t know the words to describe the rescue’

Kemo Kebbeh, a refugee who crossed the desert to Libya before being rescued in the Mediterranean from a sinking dingy, tells The Civil Fleet about his journey “OUR boat was taking on water. Everybody was screaming. We were desperate. We didn’t know what to do,” Kemo Kebbeh tells me about the time he escaped Libya.

‘Got to get ready for rescue again’

Doctors Without Borders’ HANNAH WALLACE BOWMAN tells The Civil Fleet about the medical charity’s imminent return to the central Mediterranean onboard the Sea Watch 4 “I AM a bit apprehensive. Everything is more uncertain than it was at the beginning of the year, what with the challenges we face around Covid-19 and so on,” Doctors

‘The Libyan Coastguard’s interceptions of refugees couldn’t happen without Europe’s planes’

Sea Watch’s head of airborne operations TAMINO BOHM tells The Civil Fleet about Frontex’s role in forcing refugees back to hell. THE Moonbird took off from the airport on the Italian island of Lampedusa on June 25 looking for stranded refugees in the central Mediterranean. “We were on two missions that day because it was

‘Europe will continue with its border control policies, and we will continue fighting for human rights’

IÑIGO MIJANGOS tells The Civil Fleet how his charity’s ship, the Aita Mari, was seized in Italy after saving the lives of 47 refugees “WE WERE on our way back from Syracuse to Spain when we received a message from Malta of some boats adrift to the south,” Iñigo Mijangos, chairman of the Basque refugee