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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Angelo Amante

Charity group challenges Italy over migrant stand-off

People remaining on the NGO rescue ship "Humanity 1" stand onboard in the port of Catania after Italy allowed the disembarkation of children and sick people in Catania, Italy, November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello

A German charity operating a migrant rescue ship said on Monday it would go to court to try to overturn efforts by Italy's new right-wing government to prevent some of the people it had saved from the sea coming to land.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's two-week-old administration has moved swiftly to impose a crackdown on immigration, refusing to let four charity boats bring ashore migrants, only allowing those it says are vulnerable to disembark.

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