European states may resent civilian rescuers helping migrant boats in distress, but they are here to stay.
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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 young African asylum seekers face charges of terrorism in Malta after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea in 2019 [Jelka Kretzschmar/Free-ElHiblu3]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1_JelkaKretzschmar.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Three migrants have been charged with ‘terrorism’ in Malta after a tanker that rescued them took them to Europe.
![The El Hiblu3 were arrested in March 2019 in Malta as the ring leaders of a protest on board a vessel to Europe and have since been accused of several crimes, including 'terrorism' [Joanna Demarco/Amnesty International]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Credit-Joanna-Demarco-Amnesty-International.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
At least 110 lives have been lost to Europe’s violent border regime in the Mediterranean Sea last week.
![Yusuf Alì Kanneh, who lost his life in the Mediterranean Sea aged just six months, is buried in Lampedusa [Open Arms]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/yusuf.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)