Tag: Italy
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Frontex expands aerial surveillance: More deployments of planes, drones and surveillance satellites

The EU border agency is increasingly passing on the coordinates of refugee boats to neighbouring countries in the Mediterranean. This also includes the Coast Guard in Libya. A whistleblower now reports on these incidents. Frontex is monitoring the Mediterranean and…
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Bringing back Maja T. is legally impossible: German extradition to Hungary causes criticism in Berlin legal committee

Despite an instruction from the Federal Constitutional Court, the judiciary in Dresden had a person from the left-wing scene wanted on a warrant handed over to the Hungarian police. Now there is a threat of a repeat offence. Despite instructions…
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Momentum in Hungary, stubbornness in Germany: News on the Antifa trial in Budapest

Two activists from Germany are also threatened with extradition to Hungary for alleged attacks on neo-Nazis. Several lawyers’ associations are warning against this and citing good reasons. Last week, the Court of Appeal in Budapest ruled that the Italian left-wing…
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Italy wants to stop counter-surveillance across the Mediterranean, but Sea-Watch defies the ban

In 2017, the EU Commission created a backdoor for pushbacks to Libya. In the same year, Sea-Watch began monitoring these human rights violations from the air. This should now come to an end, according to an authority of the far-right…