We speak with Silvia from the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, or PICUM.

 

She tells us about a report she wrote for PICUM on the criminalisation and non-judicial harassment of people-on-the-move and activists working in solidarity with them in Europe last year. 

 

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For more on PICUM, see: picum.org

 

You can read the PICUM report talked about in this episode here: https://picum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Criminalisation-of-migration-and-solidarity-in-the-EU-2024-report.pdf 

 

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Silvia mentioned former Green Party MEP Majid Majid. For more on him, see here: magicmagid.com

 

Ben mentions migrants rights campaigner Zoe Gardner. See episodes 73 and 38 of The Civil Fleet Podcast to hear from her. 

 

Read this report from the Irish Times on the anti-migrant protests blighting Ireland recently; https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/04/26/anti-immigration-protest-marking-easter-rising-gathers-crowds-in-dublin/ 

 

Ben mentions previous episodes of The Civil Fleet Podcast with people-on-the-move who have been criminalised in Greece, Italy and Malta. Here are some of the episodes:

 

Episode 56 focuses on the Homayoun Sabetara case

 

Episode 53 features Nadia, a Lebanese refugee whose husband was accused of smuggling

 

Hanad Abdi Mohammad, a Somalian refugee who was sentenced to 142 years behind bars for supposedly captaining a boat across the Aegean, talks to us in episode 35

 

Check out episode 29 to hear from South Sudanese human rights campaigner Yambio David Oliver

 

Listen to episode 37 to hear about the El Hiblu 3

 

Silvia mentions No Name Kitchen. For more on them, see episodes: 63, 59, 58, 51, 41 and 6

 

For more on the Iuventa case, listen to episodes 54, 24, and 2

 

Silvia mention Francesca Cancellaro. Check out episode 36 to hear from here, and the Iuventa case

 

Read this for more on Italy's detention of the refugee rescue ship Nadir: resqship.org/en/statement-piantedosi

 

Ben makes reference to the British government banning a non-violent protest group banned by the British government. For more on that, see here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/the-civil-fleet-podcast-stands-with-palestine-action/ 

 

For more on the Kinsa case, see kinsa-case.eu/the-case-kinsa