In a press release issued on Thursday 4 June, Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, returned to the subject of the status of the 450 people detained on board four vessels at the outer limit of Malta's territorial waters. She stated that keeping them at sea for more than a month is “an unsustainable solution” and “requires immediate action”.
The Commissioner called for the migrants to be provided with assistance that will not exempt European states...