Europe

UNHCR envoy criticised over remarks about parents of migrants

Official said grieving parents should be symbolically prosecuted for funding journeys across Mediterranean

Migrants whose boat was intercepted off the Libyan coast near Misrata are accompanied by members of Libyan security forces to Tripoli in April. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/Getty Images
Migrants whose boat was intercepted off the Libyan coast near Misrata are accompanied by members of Libyan security forces to Tripoli in April. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/Getty Images
Sally Hayden
Wed Sept 07 2022 - 19:17 • 3 MIN READ

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Sally Hayden

Sally Hayden

Sally Hayden, a contributor to The Irish Times, reports from Beirut and Africa