European Court of Human Rights Found Unlawful Detention of Tunisian Migrants in Degrading Conditions on Lampedusa (Italy)

On September 1st, 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (Court) delivered a Chamber judgment in the case of Khalifa and Others v. Italy (application no. 16483/12). The case concerned the detention in a reception center on Lampedusa and subsequently on ships moored in Palermo harbor, as well as the repatriation to Tunisia, of clandestine migrants who had landed on the Italian coast in 2011 during the events linked to the “Arab Spring”.