Tuesday, June 9, 2020

MALTA: Asylum Seekers Allowed to Disembark - GOOD NEWS

Amnesty International, USA, 6.6.2020

Maltese authorities finally allowed the disembarkment of all asylum-seekers held on four ferry boats off Malta’s territorial waters in the night of 6-7 June. 

The approximately 425 asylum-seekers had been transferred to the ferry boats after their rescue in the central Mediterranean. The disembarkment puts an end to their arbitrary and indefinite detention on the ferries, which for some of them, lasted over a month.