A hunger strike started Tuesday aboard
the Humanity 1 where 35 rescued migrants are demanding to be
allowed to land at Catania as over 200 of their fellows were
Monday, the crew of the German NGO SOS Humanity run ship said.
Over 30 of the 35 have officially started to refuse food and
water as they lobby to join their fellow migrants who were
allowed off because of their medical condition.
Another migrant ship, the Geo Barents of Doctors Without Borders
(MSF), is also at the Catania dock hoping to disembark over 200
migrants following the over 350 who were allowed to land Monday.
Italy is officially refusing to left NGO migrant rescue ships
into its waters under a decree issued by Interior Minister
Matteo Piantedosi.
However, a group of 89 asylum seekers picked up in the
Mediterranean by the Rise Above search-and-rescue ship run by
the German Mission Lifelivne NGO were allowed to disembark in
Reggio Calabria early on Tuesday.
Two Syrian refugees on board the Geo Barents jumped into the sea
Monday and are refusing to be taken back aboard after being
plucked from the water. One of them has been hospitalised with a
fever.
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