Doctors Without Borders: Italy - Detention of Ship Aims to Stop Lifesaving Rescues
September 21, 2020
September 21, 2020
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 -- The Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres issued the following news on Sept. 20:
Italian authorities are preventing a search and rescue ship operated by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the aid organization Sea-Watch from leaving the port of Palermo, using overzealous inspections as a pretense to prevent humanitarians from saving lives in the central Mediterranean, MSF said today.
The ship, the Sea-Watch 4, is n . . .
Italian authorities are preventing a search and rescue ship operated by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the aid organization Sea-Watch from leaving the port of Palermo, using overzealous inspections as a pretense to prevent humanitarians from saving lives in the central Mediterranean, MSF said today.
The ship, the Sea-Watch 4, is n . . .