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An excellent article by @kunsta.bsky.social on the Grand Chamber hearing in our Hamoudi v. Frontex appeal.

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Last chance to register: Our next workshop on data protection in immigration & asylum is tomorrow! Register here: https://buff.ly/3D7cUsF

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Racial profiling almost doubled in 2024: Left party calls to unjustified checks at German borders. https://digit.site36.net/2025/02/27/racial-profiling-almost-doubled-left-party-calls-to-unjustified-checks-at-german-borders

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thanks to ben and to @thecivilfleet.bsky.social for this conversation

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NEW ARTICLE: By @Anas Ambri and @Hope Barker, this investigation exposes coercion, deceit, and EU complicity in Cyprus' deportation programme. Read the edited article, co-published with @thenewarab.bsky.social & @untoldmag.org: https://buff.ly/3CW2k7S

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important one…

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An EU report finds that Italian police mislead people about Schengen entry bans. Even when a ban exists, authorities claim there is none. The report also warns of weak oversight of EU databases holding millions of records. 🔗 Read more: https://buff.ly/3Xf6yhL

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Call me crazy, but when a convicted felon KNOWN for cheating people, scamming people, and having to close his Foundation and University for fraud says he wants to go to Fort Knox to see if "someone stole the gold," my Spidey sense starts tingling. You can't trust that fucker.

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🎙️Interview de Sotieta Ngo, directrice du CIRÉ et de Mehdi Kassou, directeur général de la Plateforme Citoyenne-BelRefugees, par EDL·Espace de libertés, le magazine du actionlaique.bsky.social. Politique migratoire: un relais des idées d’extrême droite, à retrouver sur edl.laicite.be/politique-mi...

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Congress — not the president — has the power of the purse. The courts have consistently ruled that presidents do not have the right to bully states and cities into doing what they want by withholding funds already approved by Congress.

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When they get at your children: how fascism is on the rise in the lead up to German elections. 🖊️In this piece Insa Koch describes an encounter with airport police which makes her fear for Germany’s future. irr.org.uk/article/when...

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poland argues for bans from eu territory to be “indefinite”, seeking more discretion in the exercise of state power to banish www.statewatch.org/news/2025/fe...

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What is the legal status of Greenland, as regards Denmark and the EU, in light of Trump's colonialism? Analysis by Prof Ulla Neergaard: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/new-...

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it would be good if she/he/other examines of the extent to which an obsession with increasing the number of deportations (aka “returns”) was key to a drive to expand the pool of deportable individuals that was affected by a strong racisl bias…

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We will publish our position paper on the EU’s #Europol reform soon! Stay tuned and follow #ProtectNotSurveil as we reflect on this controversial European police cooperation agency this week!

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📰 Tous les mois, Migreurop réalise une revue de presse qui compile une sélection d’articles relatifs à l’actualité des politiques migratoires principalement euro-africaines. 👉 Retrouvez ci-dessous la revue de presse de janvier 2025 migreurop.org/article3371....

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labour mimicking the tories and regress uk folk… against refugees as per usual

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Today's ECHR hearings on pushbacks at the EU/Belarus borders - third party interventions by human rights NGOs - www.linkedin.com/posts/dutch-...

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dismantling international law for the benefit of xenophobes… labour should do better

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This is important. Not because Miller will ever be consistent in his pleadings for presidential power but because it’s a public service to demonstrate to anyone who might entertain a shadow of a doubt that there’s no neutral principle here. He wants power for his guy, full stop.

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1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement: freemovement.org.uk/good-charact... And I've done a follow up on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

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ICC opens investigation against Italy in the #Almasri case. We continue to advocate for individual criminal responsibility in this case. Now the full brief of the #Almasri case is now available online 👇 Thank you @statewatch.bsky.social www.statewatch.org/news/2025/fe...

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1/ The 5th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! 🚨 This issue focuses on the EU’s ‘Trumpian’ agenda & the increasing role of Frontex. From sanctions used as leverage to secretive decision-making processes, externalisation remains a dangerous & destabilising force in EU policy.

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The #Almasri case is a sign of our times, and should be sub-captioned "the defence of evil"

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everywhere (cyprus in this case) it appears that people get targeted if they don’t subscribe to the xenophobia governments push in the guise of migration policy to make racism a state religion or dogma, and act accordingly

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For #OSINT #Mediterranean nerds this is interesting: #Frontex did not continue the brief contract with #HawkEye360, and another one with Airbus DE Geo, for which HawkEye360 was a subcontractor for 2 years. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume... Here is background: digit.site36.net/2022/06/26/m...

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communication by omer shatz & juan branco vs ministers meloni, nordio (justice) & piantedosi (interior) for freeing al masri & flying him to libya despite icc arrest warrant for crimes vs humanity inc. torture & ill-treatment of migrants in detention (1st link) www.statewatch.org/news/2025/fe...

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Extradition to #Budapest unlawful: German Constitutional Court upholds Maja T.’s appeal and considers "assurances" for a fair justice in #Hungary to be too unspecific. Also, a risk prognosis in relation to the non-binary was lacking.

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Can Frontex be held accountable for participating in allegedly illegal actions? Arguments at last week's CJEU hearing, summarised by Jan-Hendrik Seelow: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/hand... (thanks to @ourborderwatch.bsky.social)

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why do some in the media (bbc recently) still talk of musk as a free speech advocate when he’s obviously not? he bought and wrecked a platform as his pals were often embarrassed by people who know things… free speech, but only for nasties others are boxed out & called victims of a woke mind virus

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My interview with @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social on the GC hearing in Hamoudi v. Frontex: On the exceptional evidence gathered by @bellingcat.com, @lhreports.bsky.social, @spiegel.de, and undisclosed OLAF evidence regarding the pushback against Hamoudi www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/02/08/f...

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unsurprising from the guy whose models for the 21st century are apartheid in his country of birth in the 1970s and 80s… and pre-civil war slavery

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🚨Over 50 cross-party MPs and Peers from six parliamentary groups and independents have written to Home Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social joining the growing calls for an independent inquiry into the Met Police's policing of our Palestine solidarity protest on Sat 18 Jan.

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case submitted to the icc against italy for releasing libyan official sought by the court for crimes against humanity and flying him back home www.statewatch.org/news/2025/fe...

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CJEU, asylum law New Advocate-General's opinion: Greek law dismissing asylum appeals unless the asylum-seeker appears at the hearing in person breaches EU law requirement of effective remedies - curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... (this is only the 2nd asylum case referred by Greek courts to the CJEU)

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Italy’s security bill threatens fundamental rights It criminalizes peaceful protest, with harsh penalties for activists, detainees, and migrants Human rights bodies warn of serious risks - the Senate should listen ❌Repression is not security❌ hrw.org/news/2025/02...

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Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021 @lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation: The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly" www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

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"Many people told me not to sue Frontex, that it was too risky because they are like gangsters. But I am determined to get justice because it is my right." - Interview with Alaa Hamoudi in Spanish 👇

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Follow the hearing on @ourborderwatch.bsky.social

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[Book Review 📚] Dr. Natasha Saunders reviews The Walls Have Eyes by Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com), exposing the violence of digital border control, the corporate interests behind it, and migrant resistance: https://buff.ly/40PF4BA

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🕯Commémor’action mondiale du 6 février : 🎦 Ciné-débat organisé demain par @lacimade.org autour du film "En colère" de Muriel Cravatte, en présence notamment de Sophie-Anne Bisiaux (coordinatrice plaidoyer et mobilisations de la Civil-MRCC et co-présidence de Migreurop). + d'infos et inscription 👇

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great looking issue about police as a problem in germany, also looks at shootings, chases and court cases

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🚨⚠️TRIAL ALERT: Palestinian refugee faces smuggling charges in Lesvos 6 February 2025 in Mytilene⚠️🚨 www.legalcentrelesvos.org #borderviolence #stopthepolicestate #endimpunity #endpushbacksnow

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deportation in itself is violence… a well-constructed case…

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on italian & eu investment in drone surveillance: problems & costs of a militaristic & racist escalation that is misnamed as “migration policy” instead of “promotion of death, systemic crimes & discrimination to bury rights & the rule of law” irpimedia.irpi.eu/sorveglianze...

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important hearing on state crimes - fx and pullbacks

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rwanda plan reloaded: rome appeal court does not validate detention in albania for the 43 people still left there after six others from the 49 taken there by the cassiopea navy ship had already been returned to italy (minors or vulnerable) www.a-dif.org/2025/01/31/a...

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