The Italian Coast Guard denied on Sunday having asked a merchant ship, which rescued 30 migrants, to bring them back to the North African country, according to news platform Swissinfo.
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Sea Watch International, a non-governmental organization, denounced on Saturday Italian authorities’ order to return 30 migrants to Libya, after they were rescued by a merchant ship. “This is a violation of the non-refoulement principle,” Sea Watch said.
The National Committee for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) has hold the Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, responsible for the death of over 40 migrants, whose bodies were recovered by the Libyan Red Crescent in multiple incidents this week.
The Libyan Coast Guard has recovered the bodies of three migrants who drowned off the country’s coast after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry of the Government of National Unity on Thursday.
A rubber boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off the coast of Libya and at least 55 people drowned, including women and children, the UN migration agency said Wednesday. It was the latest tragedy in this part of the Mediterranean Sea, a key route for migrants.
The city of Zawiya, west of Tripoli, witnessed popular protests on Thursday following the circulation of videos that activists claim…
Italian press report confirmed that interest in the democratic process in Libya is losing momentum, after more than 10 years of conflict.
Tunisian coast guards recovered a total of 31 bodies of migrants in the last few hours, including two minors, who died in various shipwrecks on the Central Mediterranean route to Europe and were “dragged by the waves” to the shore.
The bodies of 17 migrants, who boat capsized in Mediterranean Sea, were recovered on Saturday by the Libyan Red Crescent off the coast of Sabratah, according to the Libyan Red Crescent.
The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities’ systematic policy of assigning distant ports.