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Libyan Red Crescent: 8 Migrants Drown off Northwestern Libya While 92 Others Are Rescued
The Libyan Red Crescent announced on Wednesday the recovery of 8 bodies of migrants in the Garabuli area – a coastal city located on the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest of the country, 65 kilometers away from the capital, Tripoli – and their transfer via the ambulance and emergency services, following a report from the...
Update: Ruling in the Case of Sarah Mardini, Seán Binder, and 22 Others
Today, the Greek judge presiding over the trial of relief workers, including Sarah Mardini and Seán Binder, along with 22 others, has decided to drop some of the charges against the foreign defendants (Mardini and Binder), due to the lack of translation of the indictments. As for the remaining Greek defendants, the judge dismissed the...
Including Sara Mardini: Greece Prosecutes 24 People for Rescuing Migrants in the Aegean Sea
Earlier today, the trial of 24 volunteer relief workers commenced, on charges that could lead to a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. The volunteers went on trial for aiding migrants and refugees during the 2016 and 2017 crises on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean sea, including the...
COP27: On the child Asaad’s story, climate migration and rights of displaced people in Egypt
Last Sunday, November 13, at one of the meetings of the climate conference (COP27), which is taking place in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt; the Sudanese child “Asaad”, 13 years old, told the story of his escape from the floods and flash floods that hit Sudan last summer from May to September. The story started...
Disappearance of a former Sudanese diplomat in Cairo, under mysterious circumstances
The Sudanese community in Egypt announced the sudden disappearance of Mohamed Salah Abbas, a former diplomat and ambassador to Sudan, last Friday in mysterious circumstances, and his whereabouts have not been found or found so far. The community added, in its Facebook posts, that a police station report had been written and the authorities had...
Alert: What do you need to know if you are an immigrant in Egypt during the security crackdown because of protest calls during COP 27?
During the past weeks, Egyptian human rights organizations have documented campaigns of arbitrary arrests in some areas in Cairo and other governorates. The campaigns included arresting pedestrians in the streets, verifying their personal identities, searching the contents of mobile phones and social media, and detaining people for hours. The organizations also documented the arrest of...
Egyptian Public Prosecution orders the release of a Somali child who ended the life of a tuk-tuk driver who tried to rape her
Today, the Egyptian Public Prosecution ordered the release of the Somali child held in custody. The 15-years-old was detained for four days pending investigations. she killed a tuk-tuk driver with a knife when he tried to rape her under threat with a pocket knife in the 6th of October City. The Police confirmed the validity...
The Egyptian Public Prosecution orders the imprisonment of a Somali child who ended the life of a driver who tried to sexually abuse her in the 6th of October City
A 15-year-old Somali child, surrendered herself to the Egyptian police, confessing the killing of a tuk-tuk driver who tried to sexually assault her, in the eleventh district of October 6 city, Giza governorate, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported. The Somali child came to the police station accompanied by a lawyer affiliated with the United Nations High...
An important warning to refugees about scammers, and a request to UNHCR
In the last period, we have monitored many comments on our pages and the pages of organisations working and interested in refugee issues in Egypt and other posts on refugee groups in Egypt from people claiming to facilitate resettlement procedures or facilitate the issuance of travel visas to countries such as the USA, Canada, the...
“An immoral, cruel, ineffective, costly and illegal partnership”… Criticism of UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Thursday, April 14, that Britain has finalized a deal to send asylum seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda to process their cases, in a move experts warn is ineffective, violates international law and will encourage human traffickers. On Thursday 14 April, the Home Secretary also announced in Kigali that...
March 2022: The Libyan authorities deport hundreds of Egyptian migrants, most of them minors
Last March witnessed the deportation of large numbers of irregular migrants from Libya to Egypt through the land border crossings between the two countries. “Refugees Platform in Egypt” followed many deportation incidents and obtained lists of names of Egyptians who were deported during the past month from Libya to Egypt. (You can find the lists...
Human Rights Watch: Sudanese Refugees in Egypt Subjected to Arbitrary Arrests, Beatings, and Mockery
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a non-governmental organization concerned with human rights, stated on Sunday that “the Egyptian police arbitrarily arrested at least 30 Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers during raids in December 2021 and January 2022 and subjected some to forced physical labor and beatings.” According to three Sudanese refugees and a Cairo-based civil society...
In one week: Egypt forcibly deports 31 Eritrean asylum seekers to Asmara and prepares to deport dozens of detained migrants
The “Refugees Platform in Egypt – RPE ” monitored and documented that the Egyptian authorities committed the crime of forced deportations against 31 Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt to Asmara – the capital of Eritrea – during the past week. RPE also monitored the transfer of dozens of Eritreans from a detention centre in Aswan Governorate,...
A message from “CRS” for parents about safeguarding in community schools
What does safeguarding mean? Safeguarding is the Catholic Relief Services – CRS policy to ensure all staff and students are protected from any kind of harm which may include abuse, exploitation, harassment, discrimination, etc. What is the difference between Abuse and Exploitation? Abuse is when someone deliberately causes harm to another. This could happen among...
At least 18 Egyptians missing after a migrant boat carrying Egyptians and Syrians capsized off the coast of Libya
The security of the coasts of the Libyan city of Tobruk announced, on Saturday morning, that a boat carrying a group of irregular migrants sank off the “Umm Al-Shawsh Valley and the Ras Bayad resort” late Friday night. Asriwa Saleh, executive director of the Transit Foundation for Migrants Assistance in Libya, said that the boat...
A security apparatus arrests Sudanese refugees, forcing them to work under torture, and then leaving them in the desert in the absence of UNHCR protection
“I was sitting in the café, waiting for someone to rent an apartment from. A microbus stopped in front of me… they pulled me to the police section with two others, then took me to a store to move boxes, I don’t know what they contained. Then they left me in the desert…They threatened me...
“Nationalism and Kemet” is it a summons to civilization or a name for modern racist campaigns towards refugees in Egypt?
After announcing the launch of the “Returning to the Source Conference”, which was known on social media as the “Aswan Conference”, a campaign was launched on social media in recent days calling for cancelling the conference under the hashtag (#Stop_Aswan_Conference), which topped Twitter for several days. The content published from the accounts that lead this...
“HRW” criticizes Egypt for the “forced returns” of Eritrean asylum seekers…and the Refugee Platform documented dozens of detainees at risk of deportation, including children
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday in a statement that the Egyptian authorities are forcibly deporting Eritrean asylum seekers, including children, without assessing their asylum claims or other protection needs. It condemned these practices, saying that such measures expose the deportees to the risk of arbitrary arrest and torture in their countries. HRW criticized Egypt...
Dear President … “The reality of refugees is not like that”
During the Human Rights Council simulation session at the “World Youth Forum” in Sharm El-Sheikh, last Tuesday, we heard President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s talk about the refugee situation in Egypt, during his response to a request submitted by one of the participants about the human rights situation in Egypt, beginning with his statement that “The...
Egypt forcibly deported 25 asylum seekers to Eritrea, including children – others are in arbitrary detention and fear the same danger
The Egyptian authorities forcibly deported 25 asylum seekers, at twelve o’clock yesterday evening, from Cairo International Airport to the city of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. Eritreans who are deported on the basis of irregular entry to Egypt are at risk of enforced disappearance, imprisonment, torture and serious ill-treatment, sometimes even killing. The twenty-five people...
Sarah Mardini’s Trial Postponed Amid Criticisms of Greece: “Farcical Trial With Political Motives”
Yesterday, The court on the Greek island of Lesbos decided to postpone the case involving 24 humanitarian workers, including volunteer search-and-rescue workers Sarah Mardini and Seán Binder, who face the risk of 25 years in prison for aiding and defending the rights of refugees. Amid calls for dropping the charges, supporters took to the streets...