New Amnesty Int’l Report on Italy & Migrant Detention

Yesterday, Amnesty International released a public statement regarding migrant detention in Italy–Liberty and Dignity: Amnesty International’s Observations on the Administrative Detention of Migrant and Asylum-Seeking People in Italy. The report stems from April 2024 visits that AI paid to “holding centres for repatriation” run by Italian authorities.”

AI determined that some of those in the centres were being held “without the detention being legitimate, necessary or proportional, in conditions that failed to meet international law and standards.” AI argues that arriving asylum seekers “must benefit from a legal presumption of liberty…. Even when people arrive irregularly or lack the migration status to stay in the country, they should never be treated as criminals or as public security threats.”

-KitJ