According to the International Organisation for Migration, since 2017 at least 174,333 people trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean have been intercepted and forced back to Libya. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images
A coalition of search and rescue organisations have announced that they will end any communication with a Libyan maritime co-ordination centre, saying continuing to do so makes them complicit in crimes against humanity in the central Mediterranean Sea.
In a press conference on Wednesday, spokespeople from the organisations accused Italian and European authorities of continuing to fund and fuel violence against refugees and migrants as a matter of policy, to stop them from reachin
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