Italy Fined for Sending African Migrants to Libya

A European court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay $20,000 to around two dozen Eritrean and Somali migrants, saying that they may have violated the rights of the refugees by sending them to Libya.
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Italy Fined for Sending African Migrants to Libya
A boat carring migrants arrives in the port of the Italian island of Lampedusa on Aug. 23, 2011. Italy was found guilty by the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday of violating the rights of assylum-seekers by returning them to Libya without hearing their cases. Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images
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