#CaptainSupport Solidarity to all the people criminalised for smuggling, for facilitating freedom of movement, and for solidarity towards people on the move.
As a group of European activists, we stand in solidarity with all the people criminalised for facilitating freedom of movement, and towards all the people on the move.
Over the past years, all over the EU and its externalised borders, thousands of people have been arrested and put on trial for exercising freedom of movement or for facilitating it. This process of criminalisation is the systematic result of racist laws and bordering practices, and it often affects the lives of criminalised people all over their lifetime.
Facing extremely long prison sentences based on arbitrary trials, people on the move accused of 'smuggling' or of 'facilitating illegal immigration' are a central target of the carceral violence of the border regime. Yet, they rarely receive the level of of support and solidarity as white EU activists who face criminalisation for sea rescue or solidarity acts. The separations and hierarchies between racialised and white people is created and maintained by the police, media and governments, in an effort to divide us.
The criminalisation of people on the move is too often invisible, and their voices are silenced through detention and imprisonment. This invisibilisation and silencing allows the authorities of the EU and it's Member States' to further violate their rights and to exercise the worst violence on them, even after their release.
All these forms of criminalisation and imprisonment are based on racist laws that lead to political trials. Their only aim is to reinforce the European states' racist politics that kills people on the move, and to incarcerate those who survive and who resist this racist violence, silence and invisibility.
This repression targets all those who dream of, build and inhabit a world where people can move in freedom.
But we will continue to support any acts facilitating freedom of movement, and we will continue to support those defying borders on land and at sea.
Donate to provide legal assistance to criminalized people on the move across the EU, we need your help to keep fighting against Fortress Europe and its racist laws!
You can donate via our fundraising: /en/fundraising/captain-support-fund-
or directly to our bank account:
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#freedomofmovement for all!
This video informs about European practices to criminalize people for driving boats to Europe and about the rights of the accused and the other passengers.
❗️If you or a friend or a family member has been arrested on the charges of “facilitating illegal immigration”, contact the Captain Support network via Facebook or Instagram to ask for adequate legal assistance and support.
(We are able to provide support in Greece and Italy, we are preparing support in Spain and the UK)
🔴 PLEASE NOTE: You only have the right to a lawyer if you have been formally accused.
People on the move are systematically criminalized for driving the boats to Europe or for being part of the crew. The captains/boat drivers or those who assisted them, are usually accused of “smuggling” or “facilitating illegal immigration”.
These arrests are the consequence of a deadly and racist European border policy. Captains/boat drivers are used as scapegoats for violence and deaths at the border: however, European states and their border policies are responsible for this violence.
The only solution against this is the abolition of all borders and freedom of movement for all!
#CaptainSupport #RefugeesWelcome #refugees #humanrights #withrefugees #leavenoonebehind #EndPushbacks
✊Migration stories are rarely told by the people who live them. As solidarity actors, it is our duty to change that.
It is our duty to empower people with lived experience to take the floor. To challenge the dominant, exclusionary narratives on migration and to shed light on the truth that lies at its core: the quest for a better life.
💌#MessagetoHope is an initiative aimed to empower our client, Omid -to make him feel supported, seen and understood. And to be heard, Omid needs to speak for himself.
🗣️Through HRLP’s platform and with the valuable help of the principal and teacher of Avlona prison’s school, Omid gets to take the floor and speak to you about his journey -from where he started, to where he is now.
🔗Click the link in bio to support Omid.
♦️ Cada año cientos de personas migrantes son acusadas y encarceladas como supuestos patrones. Tanto las investigaciones como los procedimientos judiciales carecen de cualquier garantía. Los derechos de las personas acusadas así como los de los supervivientes son vulnerados de forma flagrante. El abogado Daniel Arencibia (@darenci ) explica en este artículo de Sarah Babiker (@procrastinadora_mustafa ) para El Salto (@elsaltodiario ) el papel que juega Frontex y la policía en el proceso, y como se instrumentaliza la situación de vulnerabilidad de los supervivientes para construir una acusación sin fundamento.
♦️ Estas leyes criminalizan la propia migración y por lo tanto deberían ser abolidas.
♦️ Migrar no es un delito.
♦️ En cambio, que la principal función de Frontex sea impedir que las personas migren, y encarcelarlas cuando lo consiguen, sí vulnera las leyes.
#migrarnoesdelito #abolishfrontex #decriminalizefacilitation
♦️ Every year, hundreds of people on the move are accused and imprisoned as alleged „smugglers“. Both the investigations and the legal proceedings lack any safeguards, and the rights of those accused, as well as those of other survivors, are blatantly violated. In this article by Sarah Babiker (@procrastinadora_mustafa ) for El Salto (@elsaltodiario ), lawyer Daniel Arencibia (@darenci ) explains the role played by Frontex and the police in the processes against „boat drivers“ in the Canary Islands, and how the survivors’ vulnerability is exploited to build a groundless accusation.
♦️ The so-called „facilitation laws“ criminalize migration itself and should therefore be abolished.
♦️ Migration is not a crime.
♦️ Frontex, whose main purpose is to prevent people from migrating and to imprison them when they do, is indeed in violation of the law.
#DecriminalizeFacilitation #MigrationIsNotACrime #FreedomOfMovement #AbolishFrontex
🔺Baboye ha sido condenado a 7 años y 4 meses de prisión. Acusado de conducir el cayuco, fue declarado culpable de los delitos de “favorecimiento de la migración irregular”, homicidio imprudente y lesiones por negligencia.
✍️ Sarah Babiker (@procrastinadora_mustafa ) escribe sobre su caso para El Salto (@elsaltodiario ), tras entrevistar a Baboye, a su abogada Sara Rodríguez Trigo (@saritardrgz ), y al abogado Daniel Arencibia (@darenci ) (link en la bio).
❕Lucharemos para conseguir justicia para Baboye y para todos los afectados por un sistema que castiga a las personas simplemente por ejercer su libertad de movimiento❕
#MigrarNoEsDelito
#TodosLibres
#DecriminalizeFacilitation
#EuropaFortaleza
**Marseille, 30 mai 2026**
Alarmphone, avec des camarades de plusieurs villes au Sud et au Nord de la Méditerranée, organise une journée publique de rencontres et de luttes contre les frontières et le racisme d’État.
Fraternité Belle de Mai, 7 Boulevard Burel, 13003 Marseille
Trois tables rondes avec une dizaine de collectifs :
1/ 10h30-12h30 : Lutter en tant que familles et proches contre les violences d’État, parce que les politiques qui tuent aux frontières sont aussi celles qui tuent à l’intérieur.
2/ 14h00-16h00 : Lutter contre la criminalisation et l’enfermement - des luttes anti-CRA au soutien des personnes criminalisées comme « passeurs » ou « capitaines de bateau ».
3/ 17h00-19h00 : Lutter en tant que sans-papier pour la dignité et la liberté de circulation - stratégies de résistance et de solidarité entre pays de transit et d’arrivée.
Face au fascisme et à l’Europe forteresse, la main sur le coeur et le poing levé !
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**Marseille, 30 May 2026**
Alarmphone, together with comrades from several cities on both sides of the Mediterranean, is organising a public day of struggle against borders and state racism.
Fraternité Belle de Mai, 7 Boulevard Burel, 13003 Marseille
Three roundtables with around ten collectives:
1/ 10:30-12:30 : Fighting as families and loved ones against state violence, because the policies that kill at the borders are the same ones that kill within those borders.
2/ 14:00-16:00 : Fighting against criminalisation and detention - from anti-detention centre struggles to support for people criminalised as „smugglers“ or „boat captains“.
3/ 17:00-19:00 : Fighting as undocumented people for dignity and freedom of movement - strategies of resistance and solidarity between countries of transit and arrival.
Against fascism and Fortress Europe, hand on heart and fist raised!
Baboye has been sentenced to 7 years and 4 months in prison. Accused of steering the boat, he was convicted of the offences of facilitating unauthorised migration, manslaughter and causing bodily harm through negligence.
His lawyer, Sara Rodríguez Trigo (@saritardrgz ), explains all the irregularities in the investigation and trial against Baboye, whilst lawyer Daniel Arencibia (@darenci ) details the systematic violations of rights suffered by people on the move accused of being alleged “boat drivers” in the Canary Islands.
We will fight to obtain justice for Baboye and for all those affected by a system that punishes people simply for exercising their freedom of movement.
We are publishing in English the article written by Sarah Babiker (@procrastinadora_mustafa ) in El Salto (@elsaltodiario ) on the case of Baboye K (available on our website).
#FreeThemAll
#DecriminalizeFacilitation
#MigrationIsNotACrime
📮 A big thanks to everyone who joined us for letter writing yesterday in honour of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day!
✊And a big thank you for our wonderful speakers for their insights into the links between prisons here, in Palestine, and beyond and how we resist them.
🌞 Don’t worry if you missed this one as we will be hosting more letter-writing workshops in the future!
Seven years #ElHiblu3. Today marks seven years of injustice against Abdalla, Amara and Kader.
Seven years ago today, on March 28, 2019, the three teenagers were arrested stepping off the El Hiblu tanker. The were accused of terrorist activity, cuffed with cable ties and taken into a high security prison wing in Malta, media reports scandalised they hijacked a ship.
One day prior they prevented an illegal pushback of 100 people to Libya. We’ve celebrated them in publications and events, the UN and Amnesty International have repeatedly scandalised the injustice brought against them. According to Amnesty International, Malta has instituted a catalogue of failures in its handling of this case.
Today, as every year since 2019 we struggle together for justice. Abdalla, Amara and Kader have now waited seven years to get their lives back. It is high time to end this farcical trial. We demand the charges be dropped. Free El Hiblu 3.
#criminalization #humanrights #malta #dropthecharges
