Pullbacks from Eastern Libya The 250 passengers were taken to Benghazi, in the eastern swathe of divided Libya, where General Khalifa Haftar runs parallel institutions to the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. NGOs including Sea Watch and Alarm Phone accused Malta in May of coordinating “criminal pushback by proxy” through the Tareq Bin Zeyad. “It does so through a sort of …
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Italian NGO Emergency says Maltese authorities have so far failed to heed calls for a rescue as boat takes on water in bad weather. “The absence of coordination on the part of the authorities is a grave violation of the law of the sea.” Emergency said it had contacted Maltese authorities, in line with maritime procedures, but had received no …
Asylum-Seekers Make Harrowing Journeys In Pandemic, Only To Be Turned Back Enlarge this image Hokyoung Kim for NPR Hokyoung Kim for NPR Stuck on a stalled motorized inflatable raft in the open sea, 15-year-old Tsedal began to panic. Sponsor Message "They told us they would take us to Malta" The sea route between North Africa and Europe is one of …