Tag: Refugees

  • Shipowners are not allowed to bring refugees back to Libya

    Shipowners are not allowed to bring refugees back to Libya

    The disembarkation of rescued refugees in Libya is punishable under German law, including for merchant ships. This is documented by a Bundestag assessment. However, the Foreign Office and the public prosecutors are not interested in pursuing captains and shipowners The…

  • Corona and the situation of refugees in Germany

    Corona and the situation of refugees in Germany

    Restrictions on movement and contact, border closures, travel bans – the Covid 19 pandemic also means considerable limitations on civil liberties and fundamental rights in Germany. Many measures, however, particularly affect refugees. On 16 March the European Union closed its…

  • Border controls in Bavaria and Austria: Police to extract mobile phones

    Border controls in Bavaria and Austria: Police to extract mobile phones

    With the takeover of the sovereign border security, the Free State is also using new technology. The extraction of telephones is supposed to help in the detection of “smuggler networks”. Another application is “contactless identity verification”. The projects are perfecting…