Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants
The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.
by The Associated Press
Nov 06, 2022
3 minutes
CATANIA, Sicily — The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port Sunday after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark — part of directives by Italy's new far-right-led government targeting foreign-flagged rescue ships.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's two-week-old government is refusing safe port to four ships operating in the central Mediterranean that have rescued migrants at sea in distress, some as many as 16 days ago, and is allowing only those identified as vulnerable to disembark.
On Sunday, Italy ordered the
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