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@front-lex.bsky.social
Challenging #EU border violence via strategic litigation before EU (CJEU), European (ECtHR), and international (ICC) Courts.
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Big news! On 18 December 2025 – the International Migrants Day – the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social will deliver its judgment in Hamoudi v Frontex. Alaa Hamoudi and his legal team have been waiting four years for this moment of truth.
Fingers crossed, everybody.
Fingers crossed, everybody.
Big news! On 18 December 2025 – the International Migrants Day – the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social will deliver its judgment in Hamoudi v Frontex. Alaa Hamoudi and his legal team have been waiting four years for this moment of truth.
Fingers crossed, everybody.
Fingers crossed, everybody.
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Big news! On 18 December 2025 – the International Migrants Day – the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social will deliver its judgment in Hamoudi v Frontex. Alaa Hamoudi and his legal team have been waiting four years for this moment of truth.
Fingers crossed, everybody.
Fingers crossed, everybody.
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Guess who's back? After weeks of intensive training and coming together as a crew, our Aurora and our Sea-Watch 5 are both ready for another round of fighting Fortress Europe! Because everyone has the right to freedom of movement ✊
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Guess who's back? After weeks of intensive training and coming together as a crew, our Aurora and our Sea-Watch 5 are both ready for another round of fighting Fortress Europe! Because everyone has the right to freedom of movement ✊
If you are in Brussels on 10 December, join @davidyambio.bsky.social and @iftachco.bsky.social to discuss strategic litigation before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social - and just how much is at stake in the FM v Frontex case.
@left.eu @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social
left.eu/events/resis...
@left.eu @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social
left.eu/events/resis...
Resistance Against EU’s plans for Mass Deportation
The Left in the European Parliament
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP
left.eu
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you are in Brussels on 10 December, join @davidyambio.bsky.social and @iftachco.bsky.social to discuss strategic litigation before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social - and just how much is at stake in the FM v Frontex case.
@left.eu @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social
left.eu/events/resis...
@left.eu @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social
left.eu/events/resis...
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🚨📢 Frontex confirma que la Policía fronteriza de Bulgaria es responsable del fallecimiento de tres menores por no haberlos rescatado a pesar de los avisos de No Name Kitchen y Collettivo Rotte Balcaniche.
Fueron sorprendidos por una tormenta en las Navidades de 2024.
Fueron sorprendidos por una tormenta en las Navidades de 2024.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨📢 Frontex confirma que la Policía fronteriza de Bulgaria es responsable del fallecimiento de tres menores por no haberlos rescatado a pesar de los avisos de No Name Kitchen y Collettivo Rotte Balcaniche.
Fueron sorprendidos por una tormenta en las Navidades de 2024.
Fueron sorprendidos por una tormenta en las Navidades de 2024.
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"Lorsque le directeur de Frontex, Hans Leijtens, donne l'ordre à un officier de remettre un bateau détecté dans les eaux internationales à la milice mafieuse des garde-côtes libyens, les deux hommes savent qu'ils renvoient ces hommes et ces femmes au viol, à l'esclavage, à la torture et à la mort."
“When the director of Frontex, Hans Leijtens, orders an officer to hand over a vessel detected on the high seas to the Libyan militia, both know they are sending those people to rape, slavery, torture, and murder,” explains @iftachco.bsky.social, co-director of @front-lex.bsky.social
Abandonados en el desierto o atrapados en cárceles financiadas por el Gobierno: así levanta sus muros España fuera de sus fronteras
✍️Por Laura Anido
✍️Por Laura Anido
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Lorsque le directeur de Frontex, Hans Leijtens, donne l'ordre à un officier de remettre un bateau détecté dans les eaux internationales à la milice mafieuse des garde-côtes libyens, les deux hommes savent qu'ils renvoient ces hommes et ces femmes au viol, à l'esclavage, à la torture et à la mort."
“When the director of Frontex, Hans Leijtens, orders an officer to hand over a vessel detected on the high seas to the Libyan militia, both know they are sending those people to rape, slavery, torture, and murder,” explains @iftachco.bsky.social, co-director of @front-lex.bsky.social
Abandonados en el desierto o atrapados en cárceles financiadas por el Gobierno: así levanta sus muros España fuera de sus fronteras
✍️Por Laura Anido
✍️Por Laura Anido
España 'levanta' fronteras en África para crear un tapón migratorio: "¿Cuántos murieron en el camino?"
España y la UE transfieren millones de euros a países como Mauritania, Marruecos o Senegal para reforzar sus fuerzas de seguridad y detener las salidas de migrantes hacia Europa....
www.publico.es
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“When the director of Frontex, Hans Leijtens, orders an officer to hand over a vessel detected on the high seas to the Libyan militia, both know they are sending those people to rape, slavery, torture, and murder,” explains @iftachco.bsky.social, co-director of @front-lex.bsky.social
On the day front-LEX filed #ICC cases v. +120 #EU officials, their successors in Brussels have met with Libyan militias from both Benghazi and Tripoli; dozens were killed by drowning off-Lampedusa; and the prep for the renewal of the Italian-Libyan #MoU continued www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6765...
Lawyers report EU officials to ICC for 'crimes against migrants'
Human rights lawyers led by Omer Shatz and Juan Branco have filed a request to investigate over 100 officials from European Union institutions and member states to the International Criminal Court (IC...
www.infomigrants.net
October 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
On the day front-LEX filed #ICC cases v. +120 #EU officials, their successors in Brussels have met with Libyan militias from both Benghazi and Tripoli; dozens were killed by drowning off-Lampedusa; and the prep for the renewal of the Italian-Libyan #MoU continued www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6765...
@mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social:
#ICC lawyers Omer Shatz and Juan Branco submitted 700-page brief revealing all #EU bodies involved in crimes against migrants. The 175,000 murdered, "tortured, raped and enslaved, could have justice if the court came out of its silence"
ilmanifesto.it/dossier-alla...
#ICC lawyers Omer Shatz and Juan Branco submitted 700-page brief revealing all #EU bodies involved in crimes against migrants. The 175,000 murdered, "tortured, raped and enslaved, could have justice if the court came out of its silence"
ilmanifesto.it/dossier-alla...
Dossier alla Cpi. Ci sono i nomi dei responsabili europei di torture | il manifesto
Immigrazione (Internazionale) Gli avvocati della Corte penale internazionale Omer Shatz e Juan Branco hanno presentato ieri alla Corte penale internazionale una memoria legale di 700 pagine rivelando ...
ilmanifesto.it
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
@mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social:
#ICC lawyers Omer Shatz and Juan Branco submitted 700-page brief revealing all #EU bodies involved in crimes against migrants. The 175,000 murdered, "tortured, raped and enslaved, could have justice if the court came out of its silence"
ilmanifesto.it/dossier-alla...
#ICC lawyers Omer Shatz and Juan Branco submitted 700-page brief revealing all #EU bodies involved in crimes against migrants. The 175,000 murdered, "tortured, raped and enslaved, could have justice if the court came out of its silence"
ilmanifesto.it/dossier-alla...
Danke @zeit.de for this in-depth analysis of front-LEX #ICC case(s) against #EU officials. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Europäische Migrationspolitik: Ein Haftbefehl gegen Angela Merkel?
Zwei Völkerrechtler wollen die ehemalige Kanzlerin und viele andere europäische Politiker auf der Anklagebank in Den Haag sehen. Klingt verrückt? Ist es leider nicht.
www.zeit.de
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Danke @zeit.de for this in-depth analysis of front-LEX #ICC case(s) against #EU officials. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
We’re excited to share some internal updates:
@iftachco.bsky.social and @omershatz.bsky.social will now serve as Co-Directors of Front-LEX - a step that will help us better lead our growing team and advance our expanding litigation projects.
@iftachco.bsky.social and @omershatz.bsky.social will now serve as Co-Directors of Front-LEX - a step that will help us better lead our growing team and advance our expanding litigation projects.
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We’re excited to share some internal updates:
@iftachco.bsky.social and @omershatz.bsky.social will now serve as Co-Directors of Front-LEX - a step that will help us better lead our growing team and advance our expanding litigation projects.
@iftachco.bsky.social and @omershatz.bsky.social will now serve as Co-Directors of Front-LEX - a step that will help us better lead our growing team and advance our expanding litigation projects.
The woman who reported Ministers #Meloni, #Piantedosi, and #Nordio for defying #ICC arrest warrant vs #Al-Masri speaks about her 2 years of daily rapes. The Italian Court decided to prosecute the three Ministers. But the Parliament refuses to lift their immunities 👇
www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1....
www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1....
Il cavallo e la torre 2025/26 - Violenza e terrore in Libia, la denuncia di una sopravvissuta ad Almasri - 21/10/2025 - Video - RaiPlay
Per la prima volta, parla davanti alle telecamere la donna ivoriana che accusa il generale libico Almasri di violenze e abusi durante la sua prigionia. Lo scorso febbraio, la donna ha anche denunciato...
www.raiplay.it
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The woman who reported Ministers #Meloni, #Piantedosi, and #Nordio for defying #ICC arrest warrant vs #Al-Masri speaks about her 2 years of daily rapes. The Italian Court decided to prosecute the three Ministers. But the Parliament refuses to lift their immunities 👇
www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1....
www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1....
@omershatz.bsky.social était invité hier sur @rfi.fr pour évoquer les 122 plaintes déposées auprès de la Cour pénale internationale (#CPI) visant des responsables de l’Union européenne impliqués dans des crimes contre l’humanité commis contre des « migrants » sur la route de la Méditerranée centrale
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
@omershatz.bsky.social était invité hier sur @rfi.fr pour évoquer les 122 plaintes déposées auprès de la Cour pénale internationale (#CPI) visant des responsables de l’Union européenne impliqués dans des crimes contre l’humanité commis contre des « migrants » sur la route de la Méditerranée centrale
"We are facing the complete collapse of the rule of law at the ICC," Shatz comments...5 years and no prosecution, despite the crimes having been acknowledged... the EU is the last... political and financial friend of the ICC. Realpolitik is a truly sad thing"
www.editorialedomani.it/politica/ita...
www.editorialedomani.it/politica/ita...
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"We are facing the complete collapse of the rule of law at the ICC," Shatz comments...5 years and no prosecution, despite the crimes having been acknowledged... the EU is the last... political and financial friend of the ICC. Realpolitik is a truly sad thing"
www.editorialedomani.it/politica/ita...
www.editorialedomani.it/politica/ita...
Since front-LEX’s database of #ICC suspects is online, stakeholders across the #EU are examining the involvement of their own nationals
Among the 28 States, #Italy stands at the top of the list with 32 Italian suspects (26%)
#Grazie to @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social
roma.corriere.it/notizie/poli...
Among the 28 States, #Italy stands at the top of the list with 32 Italian suspects (26%)
#Grazie to @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social
roma.corriere.it/notizie/poli...
October 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Since front-LEX’s database of #ICC suspects is online, stakeholders across the #EU are examining the involvement of their own nationals
Among the 28 States, #Italy stands at the top of the list with 32 Italian suspects (26%)
#Grazie to @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social
roma.corriere.it/notizie/poli...
Among the 28 States, #Italy stands at the top of the list with 32 Italian suspects (26%)
#Grazie to @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social
roma.corriere.it/notizie/poli...
“People are not dying from an environmental disaster; there is a policy, everything has been premeditated and designed” @omershatz.bsky.social accuses “The objective is always the same: to prevent their arrival in Europe, the question is what the decision they made meant”
elpais.com/internaciona...
elpais.com/internaciona...
Un centenar de líderes europeos como Macron, Merkel, Salvini y Tusk, denunciados ante La Haya por complicidad en la muerte de migrantes
Abogados internacionales denuncian las políticas migratorias comunitarias y acusan también a los españoles Margarita Robles, Mariano Rajoy y Jorge Fernández Díaz
elpais.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
“People are not dying from an environmental disaster; there is a policy, everything has been premeditated and designed” @omershatz.bsky.social accuses “The objective is always the same: to prevent their arrival in Europe, the question is what the decision they made meant”
elpais.com/internaciona...
elpais.com/internaciona...
“The law of the ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe,” @omershatz.bsky.social told the Associated Press. “Our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“The law of the ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe,” @omershatz.bsky.social told the Associated Press. “Our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
After 6 years of investigation, ICC counsels @omershatz.bsky.social and Juan Branco have filed a 700-page brief to the ICC, exposing the alleged involvement of 122 European officials in Crimes Against Humanity on the Central Mediterranean.
Learn more on our *new* platform:
crimesagainsthumanity.eu
Learn more on our *new* platform:
crimesagainsthumanity.eu
EU Crimes Against Humanity
Exposing Crimes Against Humanity of EU Officials
crimesagainsthumanity.eu
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
After 6 years of investigation, ICC counsels @omershatz.bsky.social and Juan Branco have filed a 700-page brief to the ICC, exposing the alleged involvement of 122 European officials in Crimes Against Humanity on the Central Mediterranean.
Learn more on our *new* platform:
crimesagainsthumanity.eu
Learn more on our *new* platform:
crimesagainsthumanity.eu
We shouldn’t have to say this in 2025: hunting human beings is illegal––like many of Frontex’s activities, from cooperating with the Hellenic Coastguard to sharing the location of migrant boats with Libya, for which we have taken the agency to Court.
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We shouldn’t have to say this in 2025: hunting human beings is illegal––like many of Frontex’s activities, from cooperating with the Hellenic Coastguard to sharing the location of migrant boats with Libya, for which we have taken the agency to Court.
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
Jeancy Kimbenga, the Congolese refugee who was pushed back seven times from Turkey to Greece and sued Frontex for damages, responds to Frontex's demand for €7,680 in legal fees.
via @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/26/m...
via @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/26/m...
September 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Jeancy Kimbenga, the Congolese refugee who was pushed back seven times from Turkey to Greece and sued Frontex for damages, responds to Frontex's demand for €7,680 in legal fees.
via @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/26/m...
via @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/26/m...
🚨 #EU Crimes Against Humanity #Mediterranean🚨
Italy’s Tribunal of Ministers confirms the allegations in our pending #ICC #Al-Masri case v Italian Justice and Interior Ministers, requesting Parliament to remove immunity to enable prosecution!
In an interview with #RAI, Dr. Omer Shatz explains why👇
Italy’s Tribunal of Ministers confirms the allegations in our pending #ICC #Al-Masri case v Italian Justice and Interior Ministers, requesting Parliament to remove immunity to enable prosecution!
In an interview with #RAI, Dr. Omer Shatz explains why👇
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🚨 #EU Crimes Against Humanity #Mediterranean🚨
Italy’s Tribunal of Ministers confirms the allegations in our pending #ICC #Al-Masri case v Italian Justice and Interior Ministers, requesting Parliament to remove immunity to enable prosecution!
In an interview with #RAI, Dr. Omer Shatz explains why👇
Italy’s Tribunal of Ministers confirms the allegations in our pending #ICC #Al-Masri case v Italian Justice and Interior Ministers, requesting Parliament to remove immunity to enable prosecution!
In an interview with #RAI, Dr. Omer Shatz explains why👇
Frontex’s budget stands at €1 billion.
Yet it demands €7,680 in legal fees from a refugee who endured seven pushbacks and dared to fight back.
The EU’s legal system is designed to deter, not protect.
👉 www.publico.es/sociedad/mig...
Yet it demands €7,680 in legal fees from a refugee who endured seven pushbacks and dared to fight back.
The EU’s legal system is designed to deter, not protect.
👉 www.publico.es/sociedad/mig...
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Frontex’s budget stands at €1 billion.
Yet it demands €7,680 in legal fees from a refugee who endured seven pushbacks and dared to fight back.
The EU’s legal system is designed to deter, not protect.
👉 www.publico.es/sociedad/mig...
Yet it demands €7,680 in legal fees from a refugee who endured seven pushbacks and dared to fight back.
The EU’s legal system is designed to deter, not protect.
👉 www.publico.es/sociedad/mig...
“Dying at sea is more merciful than dying in one of the militia detention centres, or being traded as if we weren’t human,” says Omer, the applicant in FM v Frontex, in a rare interview
@refugeesinlibya.bsky.social @en.sea-watch.org @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/s...
@refugeesinlibya.bsky.social @en.sea-watch.org @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/s...
El sudanés que ha llevado a Frontex ante la Justicia: “Morir en el mar es más compasivo que seguir atrapado en Libia”
El TSJUE llevará por primera vez a la Agencia europea de fronteras a comparecer por su cooperación con los guardacostas libios en la devolución a Libia de migrantes interceptados en alta mar
www.eldiario.es
August 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Dying at sea is more merciful than dying in one of the militia detention centres, or being traded as if we weren’t human,” says Omer, the applicant in FM v Frontex, in a rare interview
@refugeesinlibya.bsky.social @en.sea-watch.org @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/s...
@refugeesinlibya.bsky.social @en.sea-watch.org @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/s...
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Karims Klage gegen #Frontex hat schon Geschichte geschrieben, aber jetzt braucht er Eure Hilfe.
Er sitzt in #Libyen fest, u. es wurde eine schwere Erkrankung diagnostiziert.
Es braucht 4.000 € f. med. Notfallversorgung, sichere Unterkunft & Lebensmittel.
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate für „Karim”
Er sitzt in #Libyen fest, u. es wurde eine schwere Erkrankung diagnostiziert.
Es braucht 4.000 € f. med. Notfallversorgung, sichere Unterkunft & Lebensmittel.
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate für „Karim”
June 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Karims Klage gegen #Frontex hat schon Geschichte geschrieben, aber jetzt braucht er Eure Hilfe.
Er sitzt in #Libyen fest, u. es wurde eine schwere Erkrankung diagnostiziert.
Es braucht 4.000 € f. med. Notfallversorgung, sichere Unterkunft & Lebensmittel.
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate für „Karim”
Er sitzt in #Libyen fest, u. es wurde eine schwere Erkrankung diagnostiziert.
Es braucht 4.000 € f. med. Notfallversorgung, sichere Unterkunft & Lebensmittel.
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate für „Karim”
Karim’s case against Frontex has already made history, but now he needs your help.
Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. Refugees in Libya are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, shelter, food.
Donate now, mention “Karim” as Honoree
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate
Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. Refugees in Libya are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, shelter, food.
Donate now, mention “Karim” as Honoree
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate
June 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Karim’s case against Frontex has already made history, but now he needs your help.
Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. Refugees in Libya are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, shelter, food.
Donate now, mention “Karim” as Honoree
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate
Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. Refugees in Libya are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, shelter, food.
Donate now, mention “Karim” as Honoree
www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate
Karim’s case against Frontex has already made history, but now he needs your help.
Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness.
We are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, safe shelter and food.
Donate now (mention “Karim” as Honoree): www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate
Stuck in Libya, he was recently diagnosed with a serious illness.
We are raising €4,000 for emergency medical care, safe shelter and food.
Donate now (mention “Karim” as Honoree): www.refugeesinlibya.org/donate
June 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM