Return of migrant vessels: a violation of maritime law and moral duty

Analysis: experts say blocking right to apply for asylum is an infringement of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Gaspare, a fisher from Sciacca in Sicily, had rescued dozens of migrants attempting to reach Italy by boat from Libya when the Italian authorities threatened to arrest him and his crew for aiding illegal immigration.

I wonder if even one of our politicians has ever heard the desperate cries for help at high sea in the black of night," he said in 2019. I wonder what they would have done. No human being - sailor or not - would have turned away."