{"id":1849,"date":"2021-03-19T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghi2020.web.nctu.edu.tw\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2022-07-14T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:22:02","slug":"solidarity-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/solidarity-call\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDARITY CALL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Solidarity Call for the Mediterranea Project<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mediterranea Saving Humans<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>is under attack in Italy<\/strong>. Several members of Mediterranea<\/em> are accused by the Office of Public Prosecutor of Ragusa of \u201cfacilitating illegal immigration.\u201d It is definitely not the first time that such an accusation has been used to criminalize civil migrant rescue operations at sea<\/strong>. One of the prosecutors in Ragusa had initiated in 2004 the case against Cap Anamur<\/em>, which ended in the full acquittal of all charges. <\/em>In recent days other NGOs have been targeted with similar charges in Sicily.  Solidarity with migrants and refugees reaching Italy across the \u201cBalkan route\u201d is also at the center of judicial investigations and police operations. Also migrants are criminalized, as in the case of the \u201cEl Hiblu 3\u201d in Malta and Moria in Greece. Once again, we are confronted with attempts to give priority to border security over the duty to rescue people at risk. While lawyers continue to fight in court against such violations of international and human rights law, there is also a need to stand up<\/strong> politically and to affirm the key role of migrant sea rescue<\/strong> and solidarity practices<\/strong> in the struggle for a more open and democratic Europe<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The link tells the story and makes a call for assistance. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/criticallegalthinking.com\/2021\/03\/17\/international-solidarity-call-mediterranea-saving-humans\/<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mediterranea Saving Humans is under attack in Italy. Several members of Mediterranea are accused by the Office of Public Prosecutor of Ragusa of \u201cfacilitating illegal immigration.\u201d It is definitely not the first time that such an accusation has been used to criminalize civil migrant rescue operations at sea. One of the prosecutors in Ragusa had initiated in 2004 the case against Cap Anamur, which ended in the full acquittal of all charges. In recent days other NGOs have been targeted with similar charges in Sicily. Solidarity with migrants and refugees reaching Italy across the \u201cBalkan route\u201d is also at the center of judicial investigations and police operations. Also migrants are criminalized, as in the case of the \u201cEl Hiblu 3\u201d in Malta and Moria in Greece. Once again, we are confronted with attempts to give priority to border security over the duty to rescue people at risk. While lawyers continue to fight in court against such violations of international and human rights law, there is also a need to stand up politically and to affirm the key role of migrant sea rescue and solidarity practices in the struggle for a more open and democratic Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news-and-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}