Maurice Stierl

Ab­dal­la, Ama­ra and Kad­er helped au­thor­i­ties defuse a tense sit­u­a­tion on a boat with asy­lum seek­ers. Their re­ward? Jail.

De­lays in res­cu­ing peo­ple at sea aren’t a Eu­ro­pean pol­i­cy fail­ure. They are a de­lib­er­ate, cru­el strat­e­gy.

The crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of asy­lum seek­ers in Eu­rope should con­cern all of us.

Three mi­grants have been charged with ‘ter­ror­ism’ in Mal­ta af­ter a tanker that res­cued them took them to Eu­rope.

At least 110 lives have been lost to Eu­rope’s vi­o­lent bor­der regime in the Mediter­ranean Sea last week.