Spain avoids offering safe port to the Aquarius
Refugee rescue ship with 141 on board rejected by Malta and Italy
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Refugee rescue ship arrives in Spain with 87 people on board
Boat from Catalan NGO Proactiva Open Arms docks in Algeciras
Refugees rescued by Catalan NGO reach Barcelona
Red Cross coordinates humanitarian and social intervention of 60 migrants saved by Open Arms organization
Local hostal chosen to welcome migrants rescued by Open Arms
Facility near Barcelona will host 50 men on NGO rescue boat due to arrive in Catalan capital on Wednesday
Barcelona requests same treatment for Open Arms migrants as those on Aquarius
Catalan NGO fears 60 people rescued in Mediterranean could end up in detention centers
Catalan government urges Spain to reject EU plan for migrant centers overseas
Foreign minister Maragall calls on president Pedro Sánchez to move from “gestures to politics”
Stranded migrants disembark in Valencia
Three ships carrying 630 people saved by the Aquarius arrive in Spain
NGO urges to shut down migrant detention center in Barcelona
The Migra Studium foundation calls for the closure of the Zona Franca detention centre and all similar detention centers for immigrants in Spain (CIE) because “they break Spanish immigration law”. The foundation’s annual report on the detention center for immigrants in Barcelona warns of an increase in the number of minors, an important lack of interpreters and that many detainees do not fulfill the requirements to be expelled from the state. The foundation acknowledged the support of the Barcelona city council, which has tried to close the Zona Franca CIE alleging the lack of an activity license. According to Migra Studium these “are good news, because it shows a raising awareness about the severe situation of the detained immigrants”.
Government to grant asylum to ten Kurdish migrants found in lorry
Ten Kurdish people from Iran were found this morning hidden in a lorry in Lliçà d’Amunt, a village 30 kilometres from Barcelona, during a delivery route. According to the Catalan Secretary for Equality, Migration and Citizenship, Oriol Amorós, they are four minors, an adult woman and five adult men who had probably paid somebody to take them to England. Although Amorós said that “there are still doubts” about when they entered the lorry and what exactly their route was, the Government “will do everything in its power” to “give them asylum, regardless of their situation”. Moreover, bearing in mind that the migrants come from Iran, belong to the Kurdish minority and that “their human rights were being threatened”, they could have “recourse to the right of asylum and Catalonia would be able to take them in”.