Guardian Unlimited: Italy abandoning refugees to poverty and isolation, says report

Political refugees who risk their lives to sail from Africa to Italy are being abandoned to a life of poverty and isolation, according to a report. The damning survey of Italy's human rights record, released on Tuesday by the Council of Europe, follows the outlawing by the European court of human rights this year of Italy's "push back" policy of intercepting migrants in the Mediterranean and handing them over to Libyan patrols...