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    Miguel Duarte, a Portuguese citizen, volunteered with the German NGO Jugend Rettet in 2016 to conduct search and rescue missions for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the vessel Iuventa. Over 14,000 people were rescued during Duarte's 4 missions. In 2017, Italian authorities seized the Iuventa and launched a criminal investigation against its crew, including Duarte, accusing them of aiding illegal immigration. While Duarte maintains their actions were purely humanitarian, he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. His case highlights the increasing criminalization of solidarity for refugees in Europe.

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    Miguel Duarte, a Portuguese citizen, volunteered with the German NGO Jugend Rettet in 2016 to conduct search and rescue missions for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the vessel Iuventa. Over 14,000 people were rescued during Duarte's 4 missions. In 2017, Italian authorities seized the Iuventa and launched a criminal investigation against its crew, including Duarte, accusing them of aiding illegal immigration. While Duarte maintains their actions were purely humanitarian, he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. His case highlights the increasing criminalization of solidarity for refugees in Europe.

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    Miguel Duarte

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    Miguel Duarte, a Portuguese citizen, volunteered with the German NGO Jugend Rettet in 2016 to conduct search and rescue missions for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the vessel Iuventa. Over 14,000 people were rescued during Duarte's 4 missions. In 2017, Italian authorities seized the Iuventa and launched a criminal investigation against its crew, including Duarte, accusing them of aiding illegal immigration. While Duarte maintains their actions were purely humanitarian, he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. His case highlights the increasing criminalization of solidarity for refugees in Europe.

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    Refugee support vs Law

    The struggles of fighting against the criminalization of solidarity

    Fortress Europe 2021-2022


    Tiago Araújo
    Prof. Dr. Alexander Buck
    • Portuguese citizen

    • Worked has a volunteer in the german


    NGO “Jugend Rettet” in rescue
    missions for migrants and refugees in
    the central Mediterranean Sea, aboard
    the vessel Iuventa

    Miguel Duarte
    2016
    • High number of people dying on Europe's “doorstep” due to the refugee
    crisis

    • Highest point of this humanitarian crisis

    • Miguel Duarte joined the German NGO Jugend Rettet


    • he assumed an unconditional commitment to defend and protect the
    lives of thousands of human beings who are trying to cross from
    Africa to Europe in search of better living conditions.

    • Rescuing boat Iuventa began patrolling the central Mediterranean Sea


    → Miguel Duarte
    participated in 4 rescue
    missions aboard the
    boat Iuventa

    → Around 14,000 people


    were rescued between
    July 2016 until August
    2017

    20th of June - World Refugee Day aboard the Iuventa. 123 people on board
    2017

    • The rescue boat Iuventa


    was seized, after
    conducting 15 missions.

    This became the first


    humanitarian ship to be
    confiscated by Italian police,
    because they were
    suspecting this rescue crew
    was aiding illegal immigration
    from Libya.
    2018

    • The Italian authorities launched a criminal investigation against 10


    volunteers, including Miguel Duarte

    • They could face up to 20 years in prison and fines of 15,000 euros per
    person rescued, if found guilty of aiding illegal immigration.

    • Ambrogio Cartosio, chief prosecutor in the western Sicilian city of Trapani,


    said his office had “evidence of encounters between traffickers, who
    escorted illegal immigrants to the Iuventa, and members of the boat’s crew
    → Duarte’s case made newspaper headlines in Portugal, after a
    humanitarian organization began a crowdfunding campaign to
    help him pay for a team of lawyers, raising over 50,000 euros.

    → The portuguese ministry of Foreign Affairs took responsibility on


    the case, including the possibility to bring the case to the
    diplomatic level.

    → The team of lawyers supporting Miguel and the Iuventa rescue crew
    estimated the legal costs for the process at around 500,000 euros. These
    costs do not include travel for meetings between crew members, with the
    legal team and for court hearings.
    The response of some European countries
    • Some member states are taking some actions to stop the search and rescue
    operations of NGOs by closing ports or lifting legal actions against organizations
    and volunteers

    The Italian government has repeatedly accused rescuers of


    collaborating with people smugglers. The Italian interior minister,
    Matteo Salvini, has closed the country’s ports to rescuers ships.

    Malta stepped up efforts to ban rescue boats from


    coming to port
    The European Union However, the current
    claims to be founded denial of humanitarian
    on the values of aid to refugees by
    respect for human many member states
    dignity, freedom, constitutes a violation
    democracy, equality, of the Universal
    Declaration of Human
    the rule of law. Rights, which they have
    all sworn to uphold.
    In the Mediterranean
    Sea, 18,000 people
    died in six years.

    It is a catastrophe
    created by human
    beings and by
    inhumane policies –
    of the European
    Union and beyond.
    “In fact we are not guilty.
    The only thing we tried
    2021 - Miguel Duarte to do was to save
    was cleared by the people from certain
    Italian justice, but not death. It's the fault of the
    all Iuventa’s rescue European states that
    crew members continue to turn a blind
    eye to this situation."

    He knows that he has Human rights group


    not committed any Amnesty International
    crime, but he also views the Iuventa's
    believes that this is case as part of “a
    not a case of “legality, dangerous pattern of
    but of politics” criminalizing people
    helping migrants and
    refugees in Europe
    T ha
    nk y
    o u fo
    r you
    r pa
    rticip
    a t i on
    ! : -)

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