Lampedusa, another dramatic case of immigrants being driven back to where they came from

Lampedusa, another dramatic case of immigrants being driven back to where they came from

Lampedusa, July 29th, 2009.
After the 89 refugees sent back to Libya on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 and the 47 people sent back to Ghaddafi’s “concentration camps” on July 5th; yesterday, July 29th, 14 more immigrants - including two women and a child - were picked out of the sea in the Strait of Sicily and deported back to the port they had set out from.

The motor trawler that singled them out 35 miles south of Lampedusa, asked the Italian naval authorities for advice on how to behave. The answer was: drive them back. Following this new violation of the Geneva Convention, EveryOne Group has written an urgent letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.