On 18 December, Middle East Eye published an article by Katherine Hearst titled ‘Libya: How a sinking migrant boat's pleas for help fell on deaf ears’. Reporting on the recent death of over 60 migrants after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, Hearst speaks to rescuers and activists who say that state actors failed to respond quickly to the pleas for help from the boat in distress. She also points to reports on the EU’s ‘complicity in atrocities committed by the Libyan Coast Guard against migrants during interceptions at sea’, including by sharing coordinates of refugee boats with the notorious Tariq Ben Zeyad brigade.
Read the full article here.