A picture taken on November 4, 2016 migrants and refugees sitting on a rubber boat as the Libyan coastguards patrol help them during a rescue operation with the "Iuventa", (rear C) a rescue ship run by young German NGO "Jugend Rettet" (Youth Saves), sailing off the Libyan coast the Mediterranean sea.Italian authorities on August 2, 2017 impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said. The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in Trapani, Sicily, the police said in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)

An Italian Court Decision Could Keep Rescue Boats From Saving Refugees in the Mediterranean

Italian prosecutors accused NGOs of colluding with human traffickers, but a new investigation by Forensic Architecture finds that the evidence is thin.

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