Handing over migrants to Tripoli is a crime - Supreme Court - General News. It's a crime to hand over refugees and migrants rescued in the Central Mediterranean to the Libyan coast guard because the north African country is not a safeport.
The decision makes final the conviction of the captain of the Italian private vessel Asso 28, which on 30 July 2018 rescued 101 people in the central Mediterranean and then handed them over to Libyan coastguard to be returned to Libya. Migrants and refugees returning to Libya after being intercepted at sea are routinely detained and subjected to torture, maltreatment and abuse.