If Meloni and Europe doesn’t stop this won’t stop either. Soon they will start taking the lives of Sea Rescuers. We know this so well from our experiences in Libya. 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴STOP THE MOU NOW🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴

Join us? 💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social 💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech 💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social &Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social

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You can now order a physical copy of the BOOK OF SHAME for a minimum donation. The digital version is downloadable and free on our website. To place your order please follow this link or check our bio. www.refugeesinlibya.org/category/all...

Tunisian Authorities Destroy Refugee Clinics in Sfax for the Fifth Time Sfax, Tunisia — For the fifth time in a row, Tunisian authorities have destroyed and burned to ashes the self-built, self-organized clinics in the olive groves of Sfax. …..see Alt text for more details

Tunisian Authorities Destroy Refugee Clinics in Sfax for the Fifth Time Sfax,Tunisia —For the fifth time in a row, Tunisian authorities have destroyed and burned to ashes the self-built, self-organized clinics in the olive groves of Sfax. Each time, several hundred euros are spent to rebuild them,

David Yambio, President of Refugees in Libya and victim of EU-funded abuses: "We, Refugees in Libya and I, personally, have been abducted with the boats you financed. We have been held in arbitrary detention in the prisons you have supported. We have been tortured by the militias you have trained.”

EU Commission: Stop Funding Abuse in Libya — Joint Letter from 42 Humanitarian and Civil Society Groups www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/eu-comm...

You can now order the physical copy of the "BOOK OF SHAME" for a minimum donation to support our campaigns: www.refugeesinlibya.org/category/all...

🆘 Distress Call from Benghazi ⚠️ Two days ago, we received an SOS message from a group of women and children allegedly held in an EU-linked detention camp in Benghazi, Libya. Most of them are Eritrean. They reported daily rape and sexual violence, starvation, torture, and ransom demands. 1/2

❗entführen ❗versklaven ❗foltern ❗töten Die UN spricht von systematischen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit – Europa sieht zu. Deshalb ruft @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social zu einem breiten Protest auf – mit einer Großkundgebung am 18.10. in Rom. www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/18th-of... 2/3

We are waiting for you in Rome with ANOTHER BOOK 📕 on why the MoU between Italy and Libya is deadly. It will be in Italian with English version later on. Come with your rage, loved ones, colleagues and friends.

Stop the bloody deal! We say no to the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya.

🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨 We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias. We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾 📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome 📅 18 October

We drew upon interviews with refugees, participant observation at protests and online, and a workshop with legal practitioners. Huge thanks to all of our collaborators, we learned so much from them and without whom it wouldn't exist. The name comes from @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social's UNFAIR campaign

My colleagues Rachel Ibreck, Souhayel Weslety and I wrote a field reflection titled ‘The “UNFAIR” refugee agency: UNHCR accountability after protests and violence’ based on fieldwork researching refugee-led protests at UNHCR offices in Cairo, Tripoli and Tunisa. academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

Small overview of the demonstration we had in Geneva. Individual videos and speeches coming soon. @unhcr.org @davidyambio.bsky.social

Great piece by Peter Rees, Rachel Ibreck and Souhayel Weslety on UNHCR and our UNFAIR campaign. @unhcr.org @iom.int @davidyambio.bsky.social @infomigrants.net Give it a read⤵️ academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

With the utmost respect for people who work for UNHCR and deeply care about migrants (there’s a lot of them!), I think when the people you’re supposed to help get to this point, the institution should truly do some tough self-reflection (and possibly also soul searching).

We did what refugees are never supposed to do: we wrote a book that names and criticises the humanitarian agency that is meant to be our “saviours” For years, they wrote about us. Reports, statistics, projects. Now we have written about them—about UNHCR, IOM, and the EU….. 1/2

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A VEHICLE 🚐 Dear supporters and friends, do you have a car or a used van you no longer use? It could be very helpful for us…… see +ALT on the image

"We are not silent victims of our situation. We raise our voices against injustices. We demand the rights that are ours." #libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social

New & important effort from @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social: "Since 2021 we, refugees, have been protesting against UNHCR in Tripoli, Tunis & Agadez, calling the agency to recognize our humanity, to listen to our voices & to provide us real protection." www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/manifes...

Reposted update with alt text for those who need it

🚨 BREAKING NEWS — Shipwreck off Sfax, Tunisia 🚨 A boat carrying 47 people, including babies and children, has just shipwrecked near Louza after leaving yesterday. They are caught between life and death. We have already contacted the Tunisian National Guard demanding immediate intervention. 1/2

We join this to call for their immediate and unconditional release ‼️

“Dying at sea is more merciful than dying in one of the militia detention centres, or being traded as if we weren’t human,” says Omer, the applicant in FM v Frontex, in a rare interview @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social @en.sea-watch.org @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/desalambre/s...

There are not enough words to express our pain, nor enough time in the world to commemorate our murdered comrades. Two years ago, Fati Dosso and her daughter Marie were expelled from Tunisia, forced into the desert between borders, and left to die in silence.

#ECREWeekly Updates on EU EXTERNAL PARTNERS: 💡Probe into human rights in EU-Southern Neighbourhood deals 💡EU approves €4 billion aid to Egypt amid concerns 💡Italian NGOs demand end to Italy-Libya co-operation 💡EU allocates €202 million to Palestine 💡Rise in hate crimes in Türkiye bit.ly/446AKQ8

Karims Klage gegen #Frontex hat schon Geschichte geschrieben, aber jetzt braucht er Eure Hilfe. Er sitzt in #Libyen fest, u. es wurde eine schwere Erkrankung diagnostiziert. Es braucht 4.000 € f. med. Notfallversorgung, sichere Unterkunft & Lebensmittel. www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate für „Karim”

On #WorldRefugeeDay, we demand an end to closed-door policy, violence, and pushbacks! @davidyambio.bsky.social from @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social spoke clearly on this issue at our press conference with @sea-watch.org, @sea-eye.org and @united4rescue.org : youtube.com/shorts/qr3D0... 1/2

175.000 Menschen gerettet – trotzdem wird zivile Seenotrettung politisch blockiert.  Nach 10 Jahren Leben retten ziehen wir Bilanz & fordern ein EU-Rettungsprogramm. @sea-watch.org @sea-eye.org @united4rescue.org @soshumanity.bsky.social 
 Zur Pressemitteilung: 👉 sos-humanity.org/presse/10-ja...

Karim’s case against Frontex has already made history, but now he needs your help. Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. We are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, safe shelter and food. Donate now (mention “Karim” as Honoree): www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate

As the ICC-NGO Roundtables 2025 kick-off today in the Hague, ECCHR and @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social share our new position paper on the Libya Situation: www.ecchr.eu/fileadmin/25...

As it happens to me that many found this poetic, I will share it with the rest of you. I presented this text in Malta two days ago at the launch of the Malta Migration Archive @maltamigrationarchive.org , held at the University of Malta. I had no fancy speech to give, so I left this behind.

„Ich will Gerechtigkeit.” Was in #Libyen passiert, ist längst bekannt. Auch #Europa​s Rolle dabei ist kein Geheimnis: Menschen werden in den libyschen Haftzentren systematisch gequält und ausgebeutet. @davidyambio.bsky.social, will die Verbrechen vor Gericht bringen. @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social

The flames are haunting but so are the questions!!

Dear Italian brothers and sisters, Since I cannot vote, and since your vote holds the power to secure rights for many who live in this country without them, I invite you to read my short letter. The referendum day is on the horizon and I do hope that fear will not be the author of your vote.

The four refugees who just jumped into the sea to escape the LCG join dozens of similar cases we’ve brought in FM v. Frontex before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social How many more victims must be forcibly pulled back by Frontex and Libyan militias before the Court acts with urgency?

Hundreds of displaced people are protesting in El Amra, Tunisia, after being violently evicted, beaten, and left without shelter. This is not an isolated incident. It’s part of a wide campaign of racialized border violence, enabled by EU migration policies and externalization deals with Tunisia.

„Beim sog. ‚Migrationsmanagement‘ geht es nicht um Steuerung der Bewegung. Es geht um Steuerung der Sichtbarkeit des Leids …, wo Menschen leiden sollen, wie weit von europäischen Augen entfernt das geschehen muss, um erträglich zu bleiben.” @davidyambio.bsky.social, @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social

committed by the Tunisian authorities and funded and motivated by Italy and Europe. Let us amplify their demands, their plights and applaud their courage.

Ongoing protest in Tunisia 🇹🇳 One must be enough of a mother, enough of a father, enough of a brother, enough of a sister and above all, enough of a human being to recognize the pain of these women who now find themselves in the grip of violence and state-to-state human trafficking….

At the Schengen border exit, no one asked if I had lost my way, but I was asked if I was holding a fake passport. If you think I am complaining more than necessary, I dare you to wear my skin. www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/eu-law-...

But heaven knows how much I was traumatized this morning, even when in possession of European documents. It is evident that those who work in the field, whether they know the law or not, are well programmed to doubt my legitimacy before I can even speak.

…and sent over WhatsApp to people who should decide whether I could fly or not. Believe me, I contacted the Serbian embassy and did all possible research, and per their law, I could transit through without needing a visa.

Just yesterday, I was writing about how we are often told to wait. Wait and wait. This morning, I walked to the airport with a boarding pass for zone 1 not to mention business class, but I was the last to board after phone calls had been made, pictures of my documents scanned and photographed….

“There are places in this world where law protects you like a second skin. It walks with you into offices, hospitals, airports, schools, police stations &c. &c. It makes people speak gently to you. It ensures that your name is recorded properly….” @davidyambio.bsky.social

Our litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social debunks Frontex's manipulative claims in this new article. Together with @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social, we are suing Frontex at the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social. Its manipulation tactics won't hold up in Court. altreconomia.it/non-vorrei-r...