#ijf26
Thankful for panels like this.

🇭🇺Hungary’s turnout is breaking records: 16.89% by 9am (2022: 10.31%). Areas where the opposition Tisza party did well in last year’s EP vote are overperforming. Urban, strongly anti-Orbán voters—who tend to vote later—are just starting to head to the polls. Follow me for #HungaryElection updates!

Das bislang absurdeste Beispiel dafür, wie sich eine Grenze bewegen und gegen die eigene Bevölkerung richten kann. Ob Krokodil oder New Tech. Irgendwann schließt jede “Grenze” einen Kreis.

Ships near Italy rescue 32 migrants, 71 lost at sea, charities say Two merchant vessels near the Italian coast recovered the bodies of two migrants and ​rescued 32 survivors from a boat trying ‌to cross to Europe from Libya on Easter weekend, rescue charities said, c...

„Two merchant vessels near the Italian coast recovered the bodies of two migrants and ​rescued 32 survivors from a boat trying ‌to cross to Europe from Libya on Easter weekend, rescue charities said, citing the survivors as saying 71 others ​were lost at sea.“

www.reuters.com/world/ships-...

Todeszone Mittelmeer: Als Wal wäre ihnen das nicht passiert Das Massensterben von Migranten auf See ging auch diese Woche weiter. Doch für unsere Mitmenschen dort gibt es keinen Liveticker und kein Mitleid.

„Wer zu einer anonymen Masse entmenschlicht wird, dessen Leid rührt nicht mehr an. So wird Akzeptanz geschaffen für eine Politik, die den Tod einpreist.“

Wichtiger Text von Christian Jacob @taz.de

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The aftermath of an Israeli strike on Beirut's Jnah neighbourhood near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the largest public medical facility in Lebanon. Israeli strikes on south Beirut and its suburbs killed at least four people on Sunday.

How Greece Put Both Migration and Solidarity on Trial As Greece put humanitarians on trial as part of a crackdown on solidarity, it also ramped up prosecutions of asylum seekers.

Which also is a story on the importance of attention, in a world of utmost distraction.
(Also for readers who have not followed events in Greece over the last years): 2/2

inkstickmedia.com/how-greece-p...

“When you enter a courtroom, it’s like a football field, Winning depends on the players, of course, but it also depends on those around you.” - Spyros Galinos (CPT)

@katymfallon.bsky.social and me wrote on the effects of putting migration & humanitarian aid at trial. @inkstickmedia.com 1/2

37 Tage. Ohne Unterbrechung. #Iran

Spät entdeckt, aber es ist noch 2 Monate nachhörbar. Radiokolleg zum Border Business, zur Technisierung und Militarisierung, zum Verdienen und Sterben an Europas Außengrenzen

‚The “ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative,” as one government memo dubs it, will spend $38.3 billion of taxpayer money—allocated through last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act—to acquire and retrofit eight “large-scale detention centers” and 16 “processing sites.”‘

„State of the art“

Reporter who was kidnapped in Baghdad is known for pursuing gutsy, low-budget assignments The American freelance journalist who was kidnapped Tuesday in Iraq has been described by friends and colleagues as a determined, gutsy reporter.

I find such titles (mostly not chosen by authors, as newsroom picks it) very shabby. Yet, it highlights a serious issue: freelance journalists (local + international) often risk their lives, with ridiculous pay, protection or support by their employers if things go bad. apnews.com/article/iraq...

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U.S. Plans Military Expansion in Greenland The Pentagon is in talks with Denmark for access to three more areas on the Arctic island. Several Greenlanders said they didn’t like the idea.

The U.S. military is intensifying efforts to secure greater access to Greenland, a clear signal that President Trump’s interest in the enormous Arctic island has not waned. Here's what to know.

Buch: Gegenmacht Gegenmacht: Die Zivilgesellschaft schlägt zurück: Eine Anleitung für die demokratische Offensive

🔥🔥 Am 1.6. erscheint mein neues Buch „Gegenmacht“!

Mit vielen konkreten Antworten auf die Frage: Wie kommen wir aus der Defensive wieder in die Offensive?

Wenn es euch interessiert, bestellt es bitte jetzt schon. Das hilft dem Buch sehr. Vielleicht auch verschenken? /1

fragdenstaat.de/buch/

Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It Sets Is Expected to Make Its Application to Jewish Nationali...

"Israel's Knesset passed a bill on Monday mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

22 feared dead after migrant dinghy drifts for days, 26 rescued | eKathimerini.com A migrant dinghy in distress south of Crete triggered a rescue operation that saved 26 people, while survivors reported that 22 others died during a multi-day journey at sea.

🚩 52 Seemeilen vor Ierapetra (in der Nähe von #Kreta) retteten Einsatzkräfte 26 Menschen aus einem Schlauchboot. Die Überlebenden berichten, dass 22 Mitreisende auf der sechstägigen Fahrt (das Boot hatte wohl von Libyen abgelegt) ohne Versorgung ums Leben kamen.
www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...

Also this week, the #EU announced an investment package worth EUR 290 million to #Nigeria, including in the area of “migration management” for which EUR 16 million would be provided “to support the reintegration of returning migrants and to strengthen the fight against smugglers and traffickers..."

Nine dead and 45 missing after migrant boat sinks off Djibouti The boat had left from the Djibouti port town of Obock with more than 300 people on board and was trying to cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait when it went down on Tuesday.

At least 9 people have been lost and 45 people remain missing after a shipwreck off #Djibouti, on the way to Yemen. Last year, more than 900 migrants died or vanished along this same route. It was the deadliest toll ever recorded in the strait, IOM reported.
www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/a...

Excited for this upcoming event with one of my journalism heros at the Perugia Journalism Festival! Join us if you can 👉👉

Hungary charges journalist after claims minister was in touch with Moscow Investigative reporter Szabolcs Panyi covered story alleging foreign minister had passed information to Sergei Lavrov

On Thursday, Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, said charges would be filed against Panyi, who he alleged had “spied against his own country in cooperation with a foreign state”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

And these are no small details, also families with kids could be held for 24 months in detention centers in this bill.

For me, as a journalist reporting on camps at Europe’s borders for nearly ten years now, today’s agreement in the EU Parliament crossed another line. The bill’s potential for human rights violations, are no risks, as warned before, they are knowingly written into the approval itself. #returnhubs

„The French judiciary is set to investigate possible complicity in crimes against humanity and in acts of torture by Fabrice #Leggeri, the former director general of #Frontex“:

"Durch die anhaltenden Angriffe der israelischen Armee wurden dem Gesundheitsministerium zufolge zwischen dem 2. und 23. März 1039 Menschen getötet, 12% davon Kinder. Mehr als eine Million Menschen mussten ihre Häuser verlassen, viele sind von der Gesundheitsversorgung abgeschnitten," so @msf.de

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

Important investigation into one of the most notorious Deepfake PornFakes, last year by @bellingcat.com and others. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

Ja, allerdings handelt es sich hier nur um eine Nachrichtenmeldung.

Iran-Krieg - Italien und Dänemark verlangen Migrations-Notfallplan für EU Angesichts der sich zuspitzenden Lage im Nahen Osten fordern Italien und Dänemark die EU auf, sich auf eine Migrationskrise vorzubereiten. Die Ministerpräsidentinnen der beiden Länder, Meloni und Fred...

Dazu: www.deutschlandfunk.de/italien-und-...