Aerial image taken on June 30, 2021 by German NGO Sea-Watch allegedly showing Libyan coastguards near a migrant boat in the Malta Search and Rescue Zone.
Twenty-two organisations and academics on Thursday called on Malta to stop pushing back people at sea to Libya, following allegations that 83 asylum seekers were pushed to the North African country. On Monday, emergency rescue hotline Alarm Phone warned that 83 people had been "abducted" from Malta's search-and-rescue zone.Instead of being rescued and taken to...
