MSF Boat Detained in Italy Again After Saving Hundreds

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A Libyan coast guards patrol boat approaches a Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF) team performing a rescue in the central Mediterranean Sea, September 19, 2024. © 2024 Jude Sunderland/Human Rights Watch The crew of the Geo Barents, the Médécins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders or MSF) rescue ship in the central Mediterranean Sea, had just brought on board a 7-month-pregnant Syrian woman when a voice crackled over the walkie-talkie: small boat fast approaching.As an observer on the ship, I ran to the bridge and watched a Libyan coast guard patrol boat—built in…

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