Activist Xandru Cassar asked like minded people to join him near Parliament at 7pm this evening and leave candles near the entrance of Parliament as a symbol of protest at the treatment of asylum seekers by Maltese authorities. Since the onset of coronavirus the government has refused to fulfil its international obligations of saving lives [...]

The prime minister, the interior minister and the chief of the army were served today with a judicial protest filed by lawyers acting for relatives of two of the 12 people reported to have died waiting for rescue on a migrants’ dinghy in distress in Maltese waters during the Easter week. The brother and the [...]

Free speech NGOs have filed recommendations today on action the EU can take to reduce the risk of SLAPP suits against journalists working in the European Union. The recommendations are backed up by legal advice prepared by Maltese lawyer Justin Borg Barthet who lectures in the University of Aberdeen. The NGOs recommended a change to [...]

Photo: Avvenire Photos and videos published today by Avvenire and The Guardian show military operations conducted by the Armed Forces within sight of Malta’s coast where migrants were allegedly threatened and forced out of Maltese waters and put on a route to Sicily. The press reports quote multiple sources say that AFM soldiers [...]

Malta features on Italy’s Il Foglio today under the headline “L’Isola dei Sovranisti”. ‘Sovranismo’ is a political term normally used to describe far right politicians that argue for the autonomous self-reliance of states and for countries to act in their own interest without regard to international law or cooperation. It is used for the policies [...]