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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A French court on Tuesday sentenced 18 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds, to prison terms of up to 15 years for operating a smuggling network that transported migrants across the English Channel to the United Kingdom. The trial, held in the northern city of Lille near France’s border with Belgium, nearly 100 […]

Over 30,000 people have crossed the English Channel on small boats this year, Home Office figures show. According to the figures, the provisional total for the year stands at 30,431. The latest arrivals mean the total for 2024 to date is up 14% on the figure recorded this time last year (26,605) but down 24%

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the bloc could “draw lessons” from the contested Italian policy of processing migrants offshore in Albania ahead of an EU summit focusing on migration. She made the remarks in a letter to member states ahead of the meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, where she

Hospitality of Kurdistan Region was highlighted in the session, also its impact on the migration to Europe specifically, as well as embracing one million refugees, asylum seekers and internal displaced people. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Joint Crisis Coordination Center declared as part of the 9th cabinet’s work by the Ministry of Interior

New figures published today show the asylum appeals backlog had risen to 33,227 cases at the end of June 2024, under the last government. In the period April to June 2024, the immigration tribunal received 9,318 asylum appeals and disposed of 3,598 asylum appeals. These figures look bad as they are. But they actually hide the reality

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Turkey’s interior ministry on Tuesday announced that it has detained 200 individuals in the past month over human trafficking charges while apprehending over 4000 “irregular” migrants. “In continuous operations carried out by the Gendarmerie over the past month across 81 provinces, 200 migrant smuggling organizers and 4,040 irregular migrants were apprehended,” Turkish

Small boats, big business The industrialization of cross-channel migrant smuggling As of January 2024, over 100 000 people had crossed the English Channel using small boats since 2018. The current peak came in 2022, when over 45 000 people were detected arriving in the UK illegally using small boats launched from the coast of northern

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Fourteen people from Sulaimani, who were detained by Tunisian authorities last month, are set to go to trial on Monday, an Iraqi foreign ministry official told Rudaw, expecting a quick release for the detainees. “Those people were deceived in the name of Europe. Even if they receive a sentence they will be

Fortress Europe keeps cruelly raising its walls against the global south | Pia Klemp | The Guardian ‘I don’t see sea rescue as a humanitarian action, but as part of an anti-fascist fight.’ Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters In 2019 the city of Paris offered me the Grand Vermeil medal, an honor for bravery, to recognize work I’ve

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Kurdish man from Sulaimani province was one of the eight people who died after a migrant boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel on Sunday, a local official told Rudaw. “One of the migrants on the capsized boat who died is a young Kurd, a resident from Darbandikhan, who