A ship’s captain who handed 101 migrants over to the Libyan coastguard after rescuing them in the Mediterranean Sea has been given a one-year jail term, in the first such case heard by Italy’s courts.
ROME: The captain of an Italian-flagged ship has been sentenced to a year in prison for forcing more than 100 migrants back to Libya. The verdict came at the end of a nearly year-long trial in the first case of its kind in Italy, with legal experts considering it a landmark in Italian legislation. Seamen, representatives from the coast guard and NGOs, diplomats, and Italian