Italy sends 40 asylum seekers awaiting deportation to Albania | Migration News

Forty men of various nationalities arrive onboard an Italian navy ship in the northern port of Shengjin in Albania.

Italy has sent 40 asylum seekers awaiting deportation to Albania, where they will be held in Italian-run detention centres until they are repatriated to their home countries.

The two facilities were opened last October as processing centres for potential asylum seekers intercepted at sea, in an experimental scheme closely watched by the rest of the European Union.

But in an…

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News Source: www.aljazeera.com

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