The newly-formed Justice Fleet has suspended contact with Libya’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, which it says ‘coordinates’ the violent acts committed by the Libyan coastguard towards asylum seekers and refugees.
More than a dozen European search and rescue organisations have announced the formation of a new alliance and suspended cooperation with their Libyan counterpart in response to what they say are years of ill-treatment of refugees and asylum seekers making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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