Charities have branded the actions of the Italian government "illegal" after it prevented 250 people disembarking two migrant rescue ships. Comment: 250 'people' - note how the BBC intentionally avoids reporting that they are adult males. There.
Another ship with 572 rescued migrants arrived at the port for the same vetting process, but two other ships carrying hundreds of others are still at sea
The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.
The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port Sunday after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark part of directives by Italy's new far-right-led government targeting foreign-flagged rescue ships.