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More than 75 percent of the boat migrants arriving in Italy last year were asylum seekers. (Photo: nobordernetwork)

EU turns blind eye to 'inhuman' Italy-Libya pact, watchdog says

The EU remains keen on enhancing ties with Libya despite its poor treatment of the scores of African migrants intercepted and sent back by Italy, a report by Human Rights Watch reads.

A 92-page Human Rights Watch report, released on Monday (21 September) as EU justice ministers were gathering in Brussels for their monthly meeting, with immigration high on the agenda, examines what it describes as the "brutal" treatment of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Libya through the eyes ...

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More than 75 percent of the boat migrants arriving in Italy last year were asylum seekers. (Photo: nobordernetwork)

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