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Migrant rescue NGO quits Libya, denounces ‘criminalization’ of aid

belal hasna by belal hasna
August 31, 2018
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Migrants are seen in a shelter after they were relocated from government-run detention centers, after getting trapped by clashes between rival groups in Tripoli, Libya August 30, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara

Migrants are seen in a shelter after they were relocated from government-run detention centers, after getting trapped by clashes between rival groups in Tripoli, Libya August 30, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara

  • Following a rise in migrant arrivals on the Spanish coast, Proactiva Open Arms said it will join rescue operations carried out by the Spanish coast guard in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Sea of Alboran, which separate Morocco from the EU member state

BARCELONA: A Spanish NGO said on Thursday it will halt its migrant rescue missions off Libya to support operations in Spain, as it denounced the “criminalization” of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean.

Following a rise in migrant arrivals on the Spanish coast, Proactiva Open Arms said it will join rescue operations carried out by the Spanish coast guard in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Sea of Alboran, which separate Morocco from the EU member state.

It will begin work in Spain in the next few weeks and stay “as long as migratory pressure lasts,” it said in a statement.

The decision comes after tensions over migration in Europe saw Malta and Italy repeatedly close its ports to NGO ships crisscrossing the Mediterranean to help migrants at risk.

“The intense campaigns of criminalization of NGOs in the central Mediterranean and the launch of inhuman policies have caused not only the closure of Italian and Maltese ports, but the paralysis of many humanitarian relief organizations, at the same time as a rise in the number of migrants arriving near the south of Spain,” the NGO said in a statement.

Proactiva Open Arms has been forced to land migrants rescued off Libya three times in Spanish ports.

Rescue boats which pull migrants from dangerously overcrowded boats have faced criticism from European politicians for aiding people traffickers.

Last week three volunteers on the island of Lesbos in Greece were arrested on suspicion of helping illegal migrants to reach the country in an operation that involved 30 NGO members, police claimed.

Earlier this year, three Spaniards and two Danes were also accused of trying to help migrants illegally enter Greece.

Nearly 28,000 illegal migrants have arrived on makeshift boats on the Spanish coast since January, close to the total number of arrivals for all of 2017 on both land and sea, according to the International Organization for Migration.

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