MSF Boat Detained in Italy Again After Saving Hundreds

The crew of the Geo Barents, the Medecins Sans Frontires (Doctors without Borders or MSF) rescue ship in the central Mediterranean Sea, had just brought on board a 7-month-pregnant Syrian woman when a voice crackled over the walkie-talkie: small boat fast approaching.

As an observer on the ship, I ran to the bridge and watched a Libyan coast guard patrol boat-