The Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans' Alex migrant rescue ship carrying 46 migrants rescued off Libya coasts, docks in the port of Lampedusa
EUROPEAN authorities continued to neglect NGO migrant rescue ships adrift in the Mediterranean this weekend.
The Alan Kurdi, a vessel operated by German charity Sea-Eye and named after a Syrian Kurdish boy who drowned off the coast of Turkey in 2015, rescued 65 people 34 miles from the Libyan coast last Friday morning.
“The EU-funded Coast Guard requests us to violate international law,” Sea-Eye wrote on Twitter some hours after the rescue. “We will not return the rescued to Libyan torture camps.
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