International legal complaint & expert report on Italy’s role in privatised push-backs to Libya

Monday, December 16, 2019 — A year ago, a group of 93 migrants were forcefully returned to war-torn Libya after they were rescued by a Panamanian merchant ship and violently removed from the vessel by Libyan security forces using tear gas and rubber as well as live bullets.

For International Migrants Day, 18 December 2019, Forensic Oceanography releases its thourough reconstruction of this incident and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) will announce an unprecedented international legal complaint being filed against Italy.

For this occasion, a press conference will be held this Wednesday at the Maison de la Paix at 12pm in presence of Charles Heller, co-founder of the Forensic Oceanography project, Noemi Magugliani, Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax and Dr Gearóid Ó Cuinn of the Global Legal Action Network, and Julien Raickman, Head of Mission in Libya for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

 

Please find attached the media advisory with more details.

If you need further details, please do not hesitate to reach me or my colleague Assia Shihab.

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Assia Shihab Responsable Relations Presse/Media Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières
Djann Jutzeler Communications Officer, Médecins Sans Frontières
Assia Shihab Responsable Relations Presse/Media Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières
Djann Jutzeler Communications Officer, Médecins Sans Frontières
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