US EditionRescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them
- Malta is being accused by rescue groups of coordinating the return of around 500 migrants to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned in violation of international maritime law.
- The migrants, including 55 children and pregnant women, were on a fishing vessel when they reported to the Alarm Phone hotline for migrants in distress that they were adrift and taking in water near Malta.
- Migrants returned to Libya are subject to arbitrary detention, extortion, torture, and enforced disappearances by militias and human traffickers, in what a UN panel of experts said may amount to crimes against humanity.
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Malta says it didn't find migrant boat in distress alerted by NGOs
Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a group of nongovernmental organizations a day earlier regarding a migrant boat in distress.“Following multiple verifications of reported position through multiple searches, no boat was sighted in the reported position,” the Armed Forces of Malta said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.On Monday, four rescue groups operating in the central Mediterra…
Malta says it didn't find migrant boat in distress alerted by NGOs
Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a group of nongovernmental organizations a day earlier regarding a migrant boat in distress.“Following multiple verifications of reported position through multiple searches, no boat was sighted in the reported position,” the Armed Forces of Malta said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.On Monday, four rescue groups operating in the central Mediterra…
Malta says it didn't find migrant boat in distress alerted by NGOs
Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a group of nongovernmental organizations a day earlier regarding a migrant boat in distress.“Following multiple verifications of reported position through multiple searches, no boat was sighted in the reported position,” the Armed Forces of Malta said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.On Monday, four rescue groups operating in the central Mediterra…
Malta says it didn't find migrant boat in distress alerted by NGOs
Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a group of nongovernmental organizations a day earlier regarding a migrant boat in distress.“Following multiple verifications of reported position through multiple searches, no boat was sighted in the reported position,” the Armed Forces of Malta said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.On Monday, four rescue groups operating in the central Mediterra…
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