In a letter addressed to Italy's Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, and made public on Friday 21 February, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (COE), Dunja Mijatović, calls on the Italian government to include human rights guarantees in the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya.
Referring to "the current reality on the ground in Libya", Ms Mijatović also called on Italy to suspend cooperation activities with the Libyan coastguard when these lead to the return to...