Italy: Navy Support for Libya May Endanger Migrants

Expand Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Milan) - Italy's deployment of Navy ships to assist Libyan authorities intercept migrant boats in Libyan waters could implicate Italy in human rights abuses against migrants subsequently detained in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. "The Italian Navy deployment in Libyan waters could effectively lead to arbitrary detention of people in abus...