About 400 people reach out to Alarm Phone over three days

Between 23 to 25 May, several hundred people have tried to escape from the war and torture camps in Libya. Alarm Phone was alerted to five boats in total, carrying about 400 people on board.

Although there is no official confirmation on the fate of many of these boats, we believe that one of these boats was rescued to Europe, while several were intercepted and returned to war and torture in Libya.

There is still no clarity on the fate of several other boats. In one of those intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguards and returned to Libya, two men of Sudanese nationality were found dead.

Several groups that left from Tunisia, Algeria and Libya and that did not reach out to Alarm Phone were intercepted. In one case, one person died while 6-8 are feared missing. Some boats have also reached Europe autonomously, reaching Lampedusa, Agrigento, Linosa, Sardinia.

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Far-right "journalists" in the UK have just now discovered our activism in support of people at risk of drowning at EU borders - after us doing so for 12 years & fully in public view. Some investigative journalism! 👏

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🆘 We were alerted to a boat carrying 25 people on the way from Sirte, #Libya, towards Sicily. They are drifting in the Maltese SAR zone. Coastguards and the merchant vessel KOHAKU were alerted, but do not react. Rescue is urgent!

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