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 …
BARCELONA, Spain — A group of non-governmental organizations dedicated to rescuing migrants in the central Mediterranean is accusing the European island nation of Malta of coordinating the return of around 500 people to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international maritime law. Migrants aboard the vessel shared their GPS location with Alarm Phone showing they were in …
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