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HUMAN SMUGGLERS

Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 12, 2017
Amnesty accuses EU of being 'complicit' by abetting migrant rights violations in Libya
European governments are "complicit" in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there that often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 31, 2017
Italy denies paying Libyan traffickers to block migrants as flow across Mediterranean slows
Italy denied on Wednesday that it supported a deal to pay armed groups implicated in human trafficking to prevent migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 26, 2017
Italy seeks 'code of conduct' for charity ships rescuing migrants as death toll rises
The Italian government on Tuesday threatened to shut humanitarian groups that operate migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean out of the country's ports if they do not sign a "code of conduct.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 28, 2017
Three migrants die amid mass rescue of thousands from rickety vessels off Libya
Three migrants died in the Mediterranean on Monday night, a German aid group said, during Italian-led rescue operations in which thousands more were pulled to safety from rickety boats.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 20, 2015
Syrians, with smugglers' help, fleeing war via Latin America, many on forged Greek passports
A group of five Syrians paid smugglers $10,000 each to travel through multiple countries before being detained for carrying false Greek documents in Honduras, their epic journey exposing a little-known southern smuggling route for Syrians fleeing war in their homeland.

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