Frey Lindsay

Frey Lindsay is a reporter specialising in migration, asylum and labour exploitation. He is on Twitter @FreyLindsayMCP.

Rescue ship shooting: Where is the EU’s red line with Libya?

The Libyan Coast Guard attacked a rescue ship in international waters, but EU shows no sign of ending partnership

By Frey Lindsay

/ 18 Sep 2025

Rescue ship shooting: Where is the EU’s red line with Libya?

Seasonal workers: no halt to exploitation as visa scheme expands

Migrant workers’ legal precarity reveals incompatibility of Labour’s policies on worker’s rights and immigration

By Frey Lindsay

/ 28 Aug 2025

Seasonal workers: no halt to exploitation as visa scheme expands

Children prosecuted as adult ‘smugglers’ in UK, Italy, Greece

Governments are locking teenagers up in a bid to catch smugglers – and failing vulnerable kids in the process

By Frey Lindsay

/ 30 Oct 2024

Children prosecuted as adult ‘smugglers’ in UK, Italy, Greece

“We had to do something”: 10 years on the Med’s rescue hotline

After a decade running one of the busiest lines for people in distress at sea, Alarm Phone is needed more than ever

By Frey Lindsay

/ 11 Oct 2024

“We had to do something”: 10 years on the Med’s rescue hotline

Crotone disaster a year on: EU still making the same mistakes

A year ago 100 people drowned off the Italian coast. It was a tragedy waiting to happen, and it will happen again

By Frey Lindsay

/ 26 Feb 2024

Crotone disaster a year on: EU still making the same mistakes

Government prepared to block modern slavery survivors to prevent ‘bogus’ claims

Once considered a crowning achievement for the Conservative party, the UK’s anti-slavery legislation has become a target for anti-immigration ministers

By Frey Lindsay

/ 5 Oct 2022

Government prepared to block modern slavery survivors to prevent ‘bogus’ claims