The IAI expert and retired officer of the Italian Navy, Fabio Caffio, explains to El País Italy's choice to close harbors to migrants: "Limiting entry into its territory is its sovereign right".

The retired Admiral Fabio Caffio, now a marine law fellow with the Institute of International Affairs, talks Xinhua about the lawsuit filed by a group of Nigerian refugees who said Italy put their lives at risk and violated their human rights through its support and supply of Libyan marine officials.

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