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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Gael BRANCHEREAU and Clement MELKI

Battle In Courts Between Italy And Migrant Rescue Charities

Italian courts have already overturned several detention orders issued against migrant rescue ships (Credit: AFP)

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's battle with migrant rescue charities is increasingly ending up in court, with judges often siding with NGOs but not yet calling the law into question.

Meloni's hard-right government last year imposed new restrictions on the charity ships that rescue migrants adrift in the Central Mediterranean, and many of them have been detained -- sometimes repeatedly -- for breaking the law.

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