The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship has refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark - part of directives by Italy’s new far-right-led government.
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.
