ROME, NOVEMBER 18 - Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch consider Italy "jointly responsible for Libya's violations of migrants' rights", and have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. This is stated in a joint statement of the two humanitarian organizations also announced on tweets.
"On 11 November 2019 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch intervened as third parties in an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the violence suffered by a group of migrants by the Libyan authorities, in November 2017, at the time of interception at sea and the subsequent return to Libya. "The applicants claim that Italy has violated the European Convention on Human Rights by cooperating with Libya, allowing the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept migrants at sea and bring them back to the mainland".
Ai and HRW recall that "the people reported in Libya are regularly subjected to torture and arbitrary detention in detention centers".