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Update on the Mediterranean Sea

In 2024, a record 8,938 refugees lost their lives, making it the deadliest year for displaced people worldwide, according to statistics published by #IOM.

The first quarter of 2025
- Italy has confirmed that the secret services used invasive military spyware Paragon #Graphite to monitor activists from Mediterranea Saving Humans and Refugees In Libya.

- Malta’s Prime Minister, Abela, said he will push to reform the European Convention on Human Rights, calling it "outdated", as he aims to simplify the deportation process for asylum seekers.

-The #EU Commission proposed the Common European System for Returns, a way to have faster deportations and "return hubs" in third countries, an indirect term for deportation centers.

- Mass graves containing the bodies of people on the move have been found in #Libya.

- The "State Trafficking Report” has exposed a human trafficking network involving #Tunisian police and military selling people on the move to armed Libyan groups and the Libyan army. All while Tunisia and Libya continue receiving European and Italian financial support.

383 missing or dead people have already been recorded in the Mediterranean in the first three months of 2025. Every single one of these deaths could have been prevented. Every single one has been accepted by the responsible politicians without turning a hair.

If a human life is no longer worth anything - what then?
Stand up for human rights for all! Stand in solidarity!

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen – 15-03-21

Website link: corneakkers.com/depot-boijmans
Print: corneakkers.com/print-depot-bo
Printable: corneakkers.com/product/printa

Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Talens Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm) - A4 format)
Artist: Corné Akkers

In the aftermath of the scandal Israeli 🇮🇱 spyware company #Paragon cut off Italy 🇮🇹 access to its #Graphite #spyware, citing a breach of contract

In the meantime, the Italian government has contracted a local Italian 🇮🇹 company #Negg to provide it with new surveillance capabilities

Negg operates a one-click spyware platform known as #VBiss

According to Google, the company's product was detected in the past in operations in Italy, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan
intelligenceonline.com/surveil (paywalled)

Intelligence Online · Italy : Negg wins Italian cyber intelligence contracts after Paragon exposedBy Intelligence Online

Italian 🇮🇹 government admitted using #Graphite #spyware developed by 🇮🇱 #Paragon Solutions against the founders of an #NGO that helps refugees crossing Mediterranean

For 2 months evaded questions, dismissed allegations, and shifted its narrative

High-ranking intell. officials told a parliamentary oversight committee they approved the surveillance on the grounds of national security

.. came to light after Meta notified some of the activists
euractiv.com/section/politics/