The Civil Fleet
@thecivilfleet.bsky.social
A news blog and podcast focused on the activist-led refugee rescue and support missions across Fortress Europe: civilfleet.com / email: [email protected]
The Civil Fleet Podcast is on all podcast services, and on Youtube: youtube.com/@thecivilfleet
The Civil Fleet Podcast is on all podcast services, and on Youtube: youtube.com/@thecivilfleet
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NEW EPISODE: Diane Taylor, a journalist at the @theguardian.com, talks to us about Britain’s “one-in-one-out” deal with France, and about the British government’s new, even harsher asylum-seeker policies
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
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Now, due to financial constraints, @ifrc.org must end its mission onboard the Ocean Viking.
We are preparing to return to sea with our own medical and protection teams, we need your support more than ever. You can be part of this lifesaving work by contributing to our mission.
We are preparing to return to sea with our own medical and protection teams, we need your support more than ever. You can be part of this lifesaving work by contributing to our mission.
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Now, due to financial constraints, @ifrc.org must end its mission onboard the Ocean Viking.
We are preparing to return to sea with our own medical and protection teams, we need your support more than ever. You can be part of this lifesaving work by contributing to our mission.
We are preparing to return to sea with our own medical and protection teams, we need your support more than ever. You can be part of this lifesaving work by contributing to our mission.
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For four years, SOS MEDITERRANEE and IFRC worked side by side to support people rescued from one of the world’s deadliest sea routes. This partnership managed to get people at risk to a place of safety.
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
For four years, SOS MEDITERRANEE and IFRC worked side by side to support people rescued from one of the world’s deadliest sea routes. This partnership managed to get people at risk to a place of safety.
Keep an eye on your podcast feeds... We've a new episode coming soon!
In the meantime, be sure to listen to episode 83 👇
In the meantime, be sure to listen to episode 83 👇
NEW EPISODE: Diane Taylor, a journalist at the @theguardian.com, talks to us about Britain’s “one-in-one-out” deal with France, and about the British government’s new, even harsher asylum-seeker policies
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Keep an eye on your podcast feeds... We've a new episode coming soon!
In the meantime, be sure to listen to episode 83 👇
In the meantime, be sure to listen to episode 83 👇
This is an absolutely terrible state of affairs
🚨EMERGENCY AT THE UK-FRANCE BORDER 🚨 Today we are launching our new collaborative report reveals that people attempting to cross the UK-France border are subjected to horrifying levels of state violence. www.humansforrights.org/state-violence
"You can't stay and you can't go" - State Violence at the UK-France Border — Humans for Rights Network
www.humansforrights.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is an absolutely terrible state of affairs
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A supporter has sent an excellent email to #NationalLottery - a great template to follow if you want to take action via email!
📧 [email protected]
Thank you to the supporter who sent us this. Let's get the #NationalLottery's attention - the more emails the better!
Let's go ❤️🔥💪
📧 [email protected]
Thank you to the supporter who sent us this. Let's get the #NationalLottery's attention - the more emails the better!
Let's go ❤️🔥💪
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A supporter has sent an excellent email to #NationalLottery - a great template to follow if you want to take action via email!
📧 [email protected]
Thank you to the supporter who sent us this. Let's get the #NationalLottery's attention - the more emails the better!
Let's go ❤️🔥💪
📧 [email protected]
Thank you to the supporter who sent us this. Let's get the #NationalLottery's attention - the more emails the better!
Let's go ❤️🔥💪
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Τους τελευταίους μήνες, δεκάδες άτομα που χρήζουν διεθνούς προστασίας δικάζονται μαζικά στην #Κρήτη με την κατηγορία της «διακίνησης». Σε πολλές περιπτώσεις, οι ποινές που επιβάλλονται είναι τεράστιες, ενώ οι νομοθετικές εγγυήσεις προστασίας των #προσφύγων αγνοούνται συστηματικά.
©️ Louise Truc
(1/7)
©️ Louise Truc
(1/7)
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Τους τελευταίους μήνες, δεκάδες άτομα που χρήζουν διεθνούς προστασίας δικάζονται μαζικά στην #Κρήτη με την κατηγορία της «διακίνησης». Σε πολλές περιπτώσεις, οι ποινές που επιβάλλονται είναι τεράστιες, ενώ οι νομοθετικές εγγυήσεις προστασίας των #προσφύγων αγνοούνται συστηματικά.
©️ Louise Truc
(1/7)
©️ Louise Truc
(1/7)
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👇 This is what the #NationalLottery funds and supports by advertising on GB News and X.
Take action 👉 urge #NationalLottery to #StopFundingHate: www.instagram.com/tnluk/
📧 Email: [email protected]
☎️ Call: 0370 737 3983 (8am – 8pm Mon to Sat), (9am – 5pm Sun)
Take action 👉 urge #NationalLottery to #StopFundingHate: www.instagram.com/tnluk/
📧 Email: [email protected]
☎️ Call: 0370 737 3983 (8am – 8pm Mon to Sat), (9am – 5pm Sun)
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
👇 This is what the #NationalLottery funds and supports by advertising on GB News and X.
Take action 👉 urge #NationalLottery to #StopFundingHate: www.instagram.com/tnluk/
📧 Email: [email protected]
☎️ Call: 0370 737 3983 (8am – 8pm Mon to Sat), (9am – 5pm Sun)
Take action 👉 urge #NationalLottery to #StopFundingHate: www.instagram.com/tnluk/
📧 Email: [email protected]
☎️ Call: 0370 737 3983 (8am – 8pm Mon to Sat), (9am – 5pm Sun)
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24 humanitarians are on trial in Greece today, facing felony charges for saving lives. This is a disgrace. Humanitarian support defends people on the move and international law when the EU won’t. If this trial goes south, human rights are on the brink. @ec.europa.eu #DropTheCharges
Free Humanitarians
www.freehumanitarians.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
24 humanitarians are on trial in Greece today, facing felony charges for saving lives. This is a disgrace. Humanitarian support defends people on the move and international law when the EU won’t. If this trial goes south, human rights are on the brink. @ec.europa.eu #DropTheCharges
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Solidarity with @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social and all survivors of Libyan detention & violence. The transfer of El Hishri to the ICC is a crucial step toward justice. People on the move deserve truth, accountability, and safety. No more impunity.
Civil Society Joint Statement: Germany’s surrender of El Hishri to the ICC is a turning point for accountability in the Libya Situation
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, 3 DECEMBER 2025 We, the undersigned civil society organizations, welcome the 1 December 2025 sur
www.refugeesinlibya.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Solidarity with @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social and all survivors of Libyan detention & violence. The transfer of El Hishri to the ICC is a crucial step toward justice. People on the move deserve truth, accountability, and safety. No more impunity.
NEW EPISODE: Diane Taylor, a journalist at the @theguardian.com, talks to us about Britain’s “one-in-one-out” deal with France, and about the British government’s new, even harsher asylum-seeker policies
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NEW EPISODE: Diane Taylor, a journalist at the @theguardian.com, talks to us about Britain’s “one-in-one-out” deal with France, and about the British government’s new, even harsher asylum-seeker policies
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
She also tells us about the refugees on hunger strike against their deportation to France
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Italy blocked @soshumanity’s Humanity 1 for refusing to communicate with human rights abusers. Justice Fleet won’t work with actors pushing people back to Libya or attacking people on the move. @ItalyMFA_int, how about supporting human rights?
Humanity 1 provisionally detained in Italy - SOS HUMANITY
Press information: Humanity 1 was provisionally detained in Ortona
sos-humanity.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Italy blocked @soshumanity’s Humanity 1 for refusing to communicate with human rights abusers. Justice Fleet won’t work with actors pushing people back to Libya or attacking people on the move. @ItalyMFA_int, how about supporting human rights?
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Italy blocked @soshumanity’s Humanity 1 for refusing to communicate with human rights abusers. Justice Fleet won’t work with actors pushing people back to Libya or attacking people on the move. @ItalyMFA_int, how about supporting human rights?
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Italy blocked @soshumanity’s Humanity 1 for refusing to communicate with human rights abusers. Justice Fleet won’t work with actors pushing people back to Libya or attacking people on the move. @ItalyMFA_int, how about supporting human rights?
We've a new episode coming soon... So keep an eye on your podcast feeds!
In the meantime, be sure to check out episode 82 (and all the others)!.
In the meantime, be sure to check out episode 82 (and all the others)!.
🚨🎧 NEW EPISODE 🛟✊
Peter from The Channel Monitoring Project tells us how the new project plans to monitor people making the dangerous crossing over from France to England.
He tells us how @channelmonitoring.bsky.social hopes to counter the toxicity around this, and how anyone can get involved!
Peter from The Channel Monitoring Project tells us how the new project plans to monitor people making the dangerous crossing over from France to England.
He tells us how @channelmonitoring.bsky.social hopes to counter the toxicity around this, and how anyone can get involved!
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We've a new episode coming soon... So keep an eye on your podcast feeds!
In the meantime, be sure to check out episode 82 (and all the others)!.
In the meantime, be sure to check out episode 82 (and all the others)!.
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🔴Breaking: After rescuing 160 people in two rescues last week, our ship Humanity 1 has been provisionally detained and placed under investigation in Ortona. Why? Because we refused to communicate with the Libyan authorities. 1/3
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🔴Breaking: After rescuing 160 people in two rescues last week, our ship Humanity 1 has been provisionally detained and placed under investigation in Ortona. Why? Because we refused to communicate with the Libyan authorities. 1/3
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🔴Breaking: Once again, people rescued from distress at sea are being denied their right to disembark quickly at a nearby port. The Italian authorities have assigned us #Ortona as a place of safety – 1,300 km and almost 5 days’ transit from the place of rescue. 1/2
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🔴Breaking: Once again, people rescued from distress at sea are being denied their right to disembark quickly at a nearby port. The Italian authorities have assigned us #Ortona as a place of safety – 1,300 km and almost 5 days’ transit from the place of rescue. 1/2
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After days full of bad weather, yesterday our aircrew was able to start monitoring the situation in the Mediterranean again. Once again, we documented an illegal interception by Libyan militias. These unlawful practices do not go unnoticed.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
After days full of bad weather, yesterday our aircrew was able to start monitoring the situation in the Mediterranean again. Once again, we documented an illegal interception by Libyan militias. These unlawful practices do not go unnoticed.
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🔴Breaking: Our crew was able to rescue over 80 more people from an unseaworthy boat in distress today. Several people were suffering from burns caused by a mixture of fuel and salt water, seasickness, hypothermia and dehydration. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🔴Breaking: Our crew was able to rescue over 80 more people from an unseaworthy boat in distress today. Several people were suffering from burns caused by a mixture of fuel and salt water, seasickness, hypothermia and dehydration. 1/2
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Hoy se celebra el Día del #Mediterráneo, un día para recordar la unión que este mar ha supuesto a lo largo de los tiempos, un puente entre pueblos y culturas.
Seguiremos luchando por hacer de este mar un lugar lleno de vida, no de muerte.
Ayúdanos a seguir.
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Seguiremos luchando por hacer de este mar un lugar lleno de vida, no de muerte.
Ayúdanos a seguir.
openarms.es/es/como-ayudar/dona
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Hoy se celebra el Día del #Mediterráneo, un día para recordar la unión que este mar ha supuesto a lo largo de los tiempos, un puente entre pueblos y culturas.
Seguiremos luchando por hacer de este mar un lugar lleno de vida, no de muerte.
Ayúdanos a seguir.
openarms.es/es/como-ayudar/dona
Seguiremos luchando por hacer de este mar un lugar lleno de vida, no de muerte.
Ayúdanos a seguir.
openarms.es/es/como-ayudar/dona
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The Sea Punk I has returned to port in Augusta. Following the rescue of 31 people in distress at sea, whom we were able to bring safely ashore in Lampedusa, our fifth mission this year has come to an end.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Sea Punk I has returned to port in Augusta. Following the rescue of 31 people in distress at sea, whom we were able to bring safely ashore in Lampedusa, our fifth mission this year has come to an end.
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🔴Breaking: Yesterday afternoon, our #Humanity1 crew brought the more than 70 survivors to the assigned place of safety, #Lampedusa, where they were transferred to an Italian Coast Guard Vessel close to the coast. We are now already on our way back to the area of operation. 1/4
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🔴Breaking: Yesterday afternoon, our #Humanity1 crew brought the more than 70 survivors to the assigned place of safety, #Lampedusa, where they were transferred to an Italian Coast Guard Vessel close to the coast. We are now already on our way back to the area of operation. 1/4
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What actually happens during the long winter nights when we're on rotation? Even if we don't know of any specific search and rescue case, our crew is on duty the entire time. Even at night. Working in shifts, they share the night watch and lookout duties.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What actually happens during the long winter nights when we're on rotation? Even if we don't know of any specific search and rescue case, our crew is on duty the entire time. Even at night. Working in shifts, they share the night watch and lookout duties.
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🔴Breaking: After a distress call from Alarmphone, we were able to rescue > 70 people today – including women, children, and a baby – from an unseaworthy wooden boat. They had been at sea for over 24 hours in extremely bad weather conditions, with a broken engine and no life-saving equipment. 1/2
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🔴Breaking: After a distress call from Alarmphone, we were able to rescue > 70 people today – including women, children, and a baby – from an unseaworthy wooden boat. They had been at sea for over 24 hours in extremely bad weather conditions, with a broken engine and no life-saving equipment. 1/2
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Italy attacks rescue organization Mediterranea Saving Humans for following maritime law! The first ship of the #JusticeFleet faces 60 days’ detention & a 10k fine for bringing rescued persons to land safely. 2 public prosecutor offices even ordered urgent arrival in port. shorturl.at/WB7mW 1/3
60 days of detention and a €10,000 fine for Mediterranea: an unjust and punitive sanction.
shorturl.at
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Italy attacks rescue organization Mediterranea Saving Humans for following maritime law! The first ship of the #JusticeFleet faces 60 days’ detention & a 10k fine for bringing rescued persons to land safely. 2 public prosecutor offices even ordered urgent arrival in port. shorturl.at/WB7mW 1/3
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🖤✊🏻 Fight Borders. Love Solidarity. And leave noone behind.
Danke an @alarmphoneofficial ohne die wir diese Menschen nicht gefunden hätten.
Credits: @axelmiranda of @ruidophoto
Sea Punk rescued 31 people from distress after four days at sea!
Danke an @alarmphoneofficial ohne die wir diese Menschen nicht gefunden hätten.
Credits: @axelmiranda of @ruidophoto
Sea Punk rescued 31 people from distress after four days at sea!
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
🖤✊🏻 Fight Borders. Love Solidarity. And leave noone behind.
Danke an @alarmphoneofficial ohne die wir diese Menschen nicht gefunden hätten.
Credits: @axelmiranda of @ruidophoto
Sea Punk rescued 31 people from distress after four days at sea!
Danke an @alarmphoneofficial ohne die wir diese Menschen nicht gefunden hätten.
Credits: @axelmiranda of @ruidophoto
Sea Punk rescued 31 people from distress after four days at sea!