Category: Investigations
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*First Published on Syria Direct ATHENS — On Tuesday, three Syrian families gathered at an Islamic cemetery in Komotini, northern Greece. They were there to bury three men: Riyadh Ghassan al-Talab, Muhammad al-Suwaydan and Hussam Zatima. Al-Talab, al-Suwaydan and Zatima, all from Syria’s southern Daraa province, were among the estimated 750 people on board a…
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By Imogen Piper, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Claire Parker and Elinda Labropoulou *originally pubished in The Washington PostJuly 5 at 10:00 a.m.717 The earliest of more than a dozen distress calls came the morning of June 13. On a boat overpacked with migrants, water had run out and the situation was deteriorating. Yet the Greek coast guard did not call for a high-priority…
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*First Puplished on MadaMasr An Egyptian fishing trawler, navigated by inexperienced migrants departing from the shores of eastern Libya for a new life in Italy, got lost in the sea within a day of setting sail. A hundred people were on the deck. But the majority of the over 700 migrants were locked downstairs in…
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Authorities in Pakistan say at least 124 Pakistanis were on a boat that sank off Greece with hundreds feared drowned. By Abid Hussain *First Published on Al Jazeera Islamabad, Pakistan – Two of Abid Kashmiri’s family members were on board the refugee-filled vessel that capsized off the coast of Greece last week. A cousin, Imran Nazir, and nephew, Abdul…
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*reposted from The ConversationThe Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy has been described as the “world’s most dangerous maritime crossing”. This was proven once again last week in the tragic shipwreck of a boat full of men, women and children, around 50 miles away from the southern Greek town of Pylos. The boat was being tracked by…
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https://www.bbc.com/news/av-embeds/65942426/vpid/p0fvxz3jhttps://www.bbc.com/news/av-embeds/65942426/vpid/p0fvxz3j By Nick Beake, Europe correspondent & Kostas Kallergis, senior Europe producer BBC News in Kalamata *Originally Published in BBCThe BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard’s account of Wednesday’s migrant shipwreck in which hundreds are feared to have died. Analysis of the movement of other ships in the area suggests the…
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The findings of an investigation by Welt am Sonntag and POLITICO raise questions about whether the authorities knew the boat was in distress earlier than they admitted. *originally published in PoliticoJULY 15, 2023 1:30 AM CET BY LENNART PFAHLER, TIM RÖHN AND JACOPO BARIGAZZI Early on the morning of the Adriana’s final day at sea, the Italian authorities sent a…