Human Rights Watch's latest report - Pushed Back, Pushed Around: Italy’s Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Libya’s Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers - "documents Italy's practice of interdicting boats full of migrants on the high seas and pushing them back to Libya without the required screening. ...The policy is an open violation of Italy's legal obligation not to commit refoulement - the forced return of people to places where their lives or freedom would be threatened or where they would face a risk of torture or inhuman and degrading treatment."
JRS Europe's August newsletter includes a related article, entitled "This is Friendship? Italy/Libya Friendship Treaty Heavily Criticised," while the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' recent statement to the Human Rights Council prioritizes the plight of migrants at sea as an overarching issue for her office.
Additional news and information are available from the Euromed-MigrAsyl blog, the Italian Refugee Council's "Speciale Lampedusa" section, and UNHCR's Asylum and Migration pages.
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