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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We also ask for the immediate release of the six activists that have been detained last week!! Activism and fighting for your rights is not a crime!!

Hearing very disturbing news about the arrest & ongoing incommunicado detention of six activists, all of them refugees, in reprisal for their work for the rights of refugees near Agadez, #Niger last week. I call for their immediate release @MAEC_Niger @UNHCRNiger

🆘 from Bulgaria. We received an alert about 11 people in distress in the forest near #Kraynovo in #Bulgaria. One person is reportedly ill and in urgent need of medical help. We informed #Bulgarian authorities and demand immediate rescue and #NoPushback!

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