Press Release - 4 July 2021, Amsterdam/Augusta - Hundreds of lives are being lost in the central Mediterranean while humanitarian NGO vessels are detained, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as the Geo Barents becomes the latest NGO ship to be immobilised by Italian port authorities. MSF calls upon the Italian authorities to swiftly facilitate the release of its search and rescue ship, to enable its return to sea as soon as possible.
