CRIMINALISATION OF SOLIDARITY
Italy: NGO leader on trial for helping irregular migrants
The president of Rome-based migrants’ rights association Baobab Experience, Andrea Costa, is on trial on charges of “aiding and abetting illegal immigration”. The charges refer to facts that happened in 2016, when the organisation offered money to nine youths for bus and train tickets to reach the Red Cross camp in Ventimiglia, northern Italy. Costa could be facing six to eighteen years in prison. A court of first instance is scheduled to issue a sentence on the case on 3 May 2022.
CRIMINALISATION OF SOLIDARITY
Italy: NGO leader on trial for helping irregular migrants
The president of Rome-based migrants’ rights association Baobab Experience, Andrea Costa, is on trial on charges of “aiding and abetting illegal immigration”. The charges refer to facts that happened in 2016, when the organisation offered money to nine youths for bus and train tickets to reach the Red Cross camp in Ventimiglia, northern Italy. Costa could be facing six to eighteen years in prison. A court of first instance is scheduled to issue a sentence on the case on 3 May 2022.