Proactiva’s Release Does Not Spell End of Italy’s War on Rescue Groups
Italian judge’s releases rescue ship but upholds legal fiction of Libyan search and rescue zone. Judith Sunderland from Human Rights Watch explains why the contradiction matters.
![A rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) approaches the MV Open Arms, the search and rescue ship of Proactiva Open Arms, in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, December 16, 2017](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804eca_open_arms_shipp.jpg?itok=TZNli2GP)