The Civil Fleet

13/06/2024

NEW EPISODE: Solidarity in Bosnia (Part II) is out now!

We're going back to Bihać to hear more from the refugees/migrants/People-on-the-move trapped in the Balkan country, and from the No Name Kitchen volunteers acting in solidarity with them.

Be sure to listen to Part I, and...

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09/06/2024

NEW EPISODE: I went to Bosnia for this episode to see how No Name Kitchen supports refugees there, and how they document border violence.

I'll also spoke with refugees trapped in the Balkan country about their journeys across Fortress Europe.

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17/07/2023

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Nicola Kelly tells us about the UK government providing £3m to the Turkish border guards to stop people crossing the border with Iran, and about asylum seekers being abused and intimidated by staff at Home Office hotels

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02/07/2023

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Barbara tells us how No Name Kitchen helps refugees who have been forced to live underground along the Balkan route, and how the authorities in Bosnia & Serbia have effectively made it illegal to help them. 🎧

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17/06/2023

NEW PODCAST: Sophie & Patrick from Corporate Watch tell us about two obscure companies organising chartered deportation flights for governments across Europe

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17/06/2023

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Sophie & Patrick from Corporate Watch tell us about two obscure companies organising chartered deportation flights for governments across Europe

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20/03/2023

Human rights groups condemn government’s ‘abysmal asylum policies’ after The Civil Fleet reveals that 46 people passed away while housed by the Home Office last year FORTY-SIX (46) people, in…

27/02/2023

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Somalian refugee Hanad Abdi Mohammad tells us how he was sentenced to 142 YEARS behind bars in Greece after he briefly steered a rubber boat because human traffickers abandoned him and 30 others in the Aegean Sea and the coastguards endangered their lives

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28/01/2023

NEW PODCAST EPISODE:

Lighthouse Reports' Klaas van Dijken tells us how asylum seekers are being held in secret prisons on commercial ships, and about the 'black sites' where people on the move are held, beaten and tortured before being illegally pushed back across Europe's borders

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14/01/2023

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Dalia tells us about the people trapped at Lithuania's border with Belarus and how Sienos Grupe activists are helping to prevent pushbacks and support people on the move

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02/09/2022

Activist tell The Civil Fleet how the situation for the people at Fortress Europe’s walls has only got worse since the two-year-old boy’s lifeless body was seen across the world

Activist tell The Civil Fleet how the situation for the people at Fortress Europe’s walls has only got worse since the two-year-old boy’s lifeless body was seen across the world IN THE …

11/07/2022

The Civil Fleet Podcast: Episode 28: Alice and Hamid tell from Borderline Lesvos tell us about refugee life on the Greek island, conditions inside Moria 2 detention camp, and how the authorities may be employing the mafia to push refugees back to sea

https://civilfleet.libsyn.com/episode-28-refugee-life-pushbacks-and-criminalisation-on-lesvos

20/05/2022

New Podcast Episode!

We hear from Kathrin Schmidt, a rescue worker who saved the lives of 14,000 refugees in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the Iuventa five years ago

This Saturday, May 21, she and three others from the ship are due to appear in an Italian court on charges of facilitating illegal entry into the country. They could all face 20 years behind bars.

The charges are bogus, of course, and Kathrin is going to tell us why. She will also explain how the Italian secret services wiretapped the Iuventa and surveilled journalists and lawyers speaking with their clients.

She will also explain what this case means for the future of activist-led sea rescues, and for the people on the move at Europe's edges.

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27/02/2022

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27/02/2022

The Civil Fleet Podcast: Episode 20: The so-called Libyan Coastguard shot at refugees as they tried to flee:

Leona from the Bansky-funded refugee rescue ship Louise Michel talks about witnessing the Libyan Coastguards shoot at refugees as they tried to escape, and of fossil fuel giant Shell's involvement in a pushback

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16/02/2022

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Italian journalist Lorenzo D'Agostino explains how the EU-sponsored Italy-Libya deal in 2017 made the desert more dangerous and how Italy's anti-mafia squad jails refugees for driving boats across the Mediterranean

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This month marked the five-year anniversary of the EU-sponsored agreement between Italy and Libya. The deal led to millions of Euros bing spent on the so-called Libyan Coastguard and thousands of people being pushed back into Libya's condemned detention centres. In today's episode, Italian journalis...

23/01/2022

New Episode: Care4Calais Clare Moseley talks about the charity's legal challenge with the PCS Union against the UK's proposed policy to push asylum seekers in the Channel back to France

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Listen to The Civil Fleet Podcast on Spotify. Saving lives at sea is not a crime But for the past few years, European states have treated those brave enough to save refugees from drowning in the Mediterranean as if they were breaking the law. Welcome to The Civil Fleet, a podcast by civilfleet.com t...

19/01/2022

EU-supported Libyan Coastguards fire on refugee who jumped overboard and swam towards rescuers

The Louise Michel warns of another atrocity carried out by the so-called coastguards, just days after ICC told to investigate Italy and Malta’s role in possible crimes against humanity in Libya

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/eu-supported-libyan-coastguards-fire-on-refugee-who-jumped-overboard/

The Louise Michel warns of another atrocity carried out by the so-called coastguards, just days after ICC told to investigate Italy and Malta’s role in possible crimes against humanity in Lib…

07/10/2021

I asked activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky what he thought of Europe's handling of the so-called ‘refugee’ crisis and of the efforts of the activists who are chartering ships, putting together crews and saving thousands of lives in the Med.

Here's what he had to say 👇

08/08/2021

New podcast episode: Sea Eye spokeswoman Sophie W talks about saving 409 people in less than 20 hours in the central Mediterranean, and how an encounter with the EU-supported Libyan Coastguards put refugee lives at risk

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22/07/2021

New Episode: 's Natalie Gruber talks about monitoring human rights abuses, supporting refugees, and the criminalisation of solidarity at the borders between Greece, Turkey & Bulgaria.

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‎Show The Civil Fleet Podcast, Ep Episode 9: Supporting refugees trapped at the Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria borders - Jul 22, 2021

27/06/2021

New podcast episode: Border Violence Monitoring Network's Simon Campbell speaks about the lengths governments along the Balkan route are willing to go to prevent refugees from reaching safety in Europe

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13/06/2021

‘Moria fire trial was ‘not up to legal standards’

Lawyers and activists slam Greek court’s proceedings and decision to sentence four teenage Afghan refugees to 10-years in an adult jail

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/moria-fire-trial-was-not-up-to-legal-standards/

Lawyers and activists slam Greek court’s proceedings and decision to sentence four teenage Afghan refugees to 10-years in an adult jail THE trial of four Afghan teenagers jailed for 10 years …

01/05/2021

New podcast: Mare Liberum activist Marie talks about:
* The systematic abuse of refugees crossing the Aegean and trapped inside Greece's camps.
* How Germany prevented the ship from sailing
* How fascists tried to burn down the ship while she was on it

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/03Q1rPzQt36CYYjZoRg6Th

28/03/2021

New podcast episode: Sascha, former head of operations on the Iuventa10, tells us how Italy's far-right got the intelligence services to spy on their rescue missions and how the Italian state wants to jail him and 20 others for saving lives.

Listen here: https://civilfleet.libsyn.com/episode-2-criminalised-for-saving-lives

In today's episode we speak with Sascha, a former head of operations on the Iuventa refugee rescue ship that saved around 14,000 lives between August 2016 and 2017. Sascha tells us what it was like working on the ship and how Italy's far right movement got the intelligence services to spy on their a...

17/03/2021

Naomi Klein and Cornel West join activists’ call for donations to refugee rescue charity under legal attack

Mediterranea: Saving Humans refutes Italian prosecutor’s charge of ‘facilitating illegal immigration’

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/naomi-klein-and-cornel-west-join-activists-call-for-donations-to-refugee-rescue-charity-under-legal-attack/

Mediterranea: Saving Humans refutes Italian prosecutor’s charge of ‘facilitating illegal immigration’ US AUTHOR Naomi Klein and philosopher Cornel West joined European human rights activists …

03/03/2021

Charges brought against activists who saved the lives of over 14,000 people at sea

‘As governments continue to break their own laws,’ the former captain of the Iuventa refugee rescue ship says, the accusations they aided illegal immigration ‘are a joke’

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/charges-brought-against-activists-who-saved-the-lives-of-over-14000-people-at-sea/

‘As governments continue to break their own laws,’ the former captain of the Iuventa refugee rescue ship says, the accusation they aided illegal immigration ‘are a joke’ ACTIVISTS who saved the liv…

02/03/2021

Sea Watch: One ship freed while 363 refugees still wait for land on another

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/sea-watch-one-ship-freed-while-363-refugees-still-wait-for-land-on-another/

ANOTHER NGO refugee rescue ship was released today after spending other five months barred from leaving an Italian port for a multitude of supposed safety failings. The Administrative Court in Pale…

02/03/2021

Mediterranea says police raid and investigation is aimed at smearing NGO refugee rescuers

‘We will not stop because of this sad and predictable attack; we will continue to be at sea,’ the NGO says

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/mediterranea-says-police-raid-and-investigation-is-aimed-at-smearing-ngo-refugee-rescuers/

‘We will not stop because of this sad and predictable attack; we will continue to be at sea,’ the NGO says AN ITALIAN NGO refugee rescue organistion said yesterday it would not stop its life-saving…

01/03/2021

At least 15 refugees dead in Mediterranean shipwreck

Meanwhile, 363 who were rescued this weekend by the crew of an NGO rescue ship still wait for Italy or Malta to allow them to come ashore

https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/at-least-15-refugees-dead-in-mediterranean-shipwreck/

Meanwhile, 363 who were rescued this weekend by the crew of an NGO rescue ship still wait for Italy or Malta to allow them to come ashore AT LEAST 15 people drowned in the central Mediterranean at …