Kompass-newsletter 145 - Juni 2026
Echoes No. 21: For a new Pact – with People on the Move! +++ New overview map of the Civilfleet +++ Deportation Alarm now with an international website +++ 12–14 June in Jena: Entgrenzt – first conference on migration law for lawyers +++ 12–14 June in Offenbach: Right to the City Forum +++ 17–19 June in Hamburg: Youth Without Borders at the Conference of Interior Ministers +++ 4 July in Erfurt: ‘widersetzen` against the AfD party conference +++ Alarm Phone Report on Western Med/Atlantic: Visas for Everyone or no Visas at all! +++ Refugee Support Aegean: Report on the situation of recognised refugees +++ JLProject: The database of illegal pushbacks to Libya +++ Borderforensics: Report on Women State Trafficking +++ Review: El Hishri pre-trial in The Hague +++ Outlook: 4–8 August 2026 in Cotonou, Benin: World Social Forum with Freedom of Movement delegations; 26 August to 3 September 2026 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Caravan for Solidarity, Equality, Unity
Dear friends,
Stop deportation! On 30 May, up to 300 people from a diverse range of backgrounds marched loudly through Frankfurt’s deportation airport. We’ll Come United Rhein-Main had organised the event and, at the same time – in cooperation with Welcome to Europe – published two updated guides against deportations and for the right to remain in several languages; see https://w2eu.info/en/countries/germany/deportation and https://w2eu.info/en/countries/germany/regularization-processes. And it is more than a fitting coincidence that on the same day, Deportation Alarm, in collaboration with the International Deportation Watch Network, expanded its website. From now on, charter deportations will be monitored and critically documented not only from Germany but across the whole of Europe; see https://deportationwatch.net/
“El Hishri at the ICC – EU must stop Complicity”: this was the slogan carried to The Hague by the grassroots organisation Refugees in Libya on the occasion of the preliminary hearing against a Libyan torturer, thereby drawing a direct link to EU migration policy. The first three days in mid-May before the International Criminal Court must already be regarded as a legal milestone. This is because the reading of the indictments was based largely on statements from victims and those affected by the Libyan camp system. The lead prosecutor put it with remarkable clarity: “The independent and impartial justice that this court can deliver is a beacon of hope for victims. These crimes must end and must not recur. I would like to express my gratitude to the victims, the witnesses and the civil society organisations who displayed patience, resilience and a resolute belief in justice…“
On 12 June, the new regulations of the so-called Common European Asylum System (CEAS) will officially come into force. We are responding to this pact of aggravated repression and criminalisation of flight- and migration-movements with the headline of the new issue of Echoes: “For a new Pact… with People on the Move”. Accompanying this the worth reading publication on the situation in the Central Mediterranean includes an updated overview map of the civilian fleet. And we can reveal already: over the course of the last year, further actors have joined the effort, practising concrete solidarity along this route.
With this in mind: no respite.
The Kompass crew