We don't accept lessons on human rights says Piantedosi

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 8 - The Italian government will not accept lessons on human rights in relation to migrants rescued by two foreign NGO run ships who have been stopped from landing in Sicily and described as "residual cargo", Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Tuesday.
    "If you want to focus on the exegesis of bureaucratic terms then go at it, but we don't accept lessons from anyone from the standpoint of respecting human rights," he said.
    Pinatedosi said the migrants still aboard the Humanity 1 and the Geo Barents at Catania "are not at sea, they are safe".
    The government has allowed vulnerable migrants to land but is refusing disembarkation for the healthier migrants, many of whom have now started a hunger strike.
    Piantedosi replied to a question on the legality of selecting migrants for landing by saying "there are ongoing appeals, it will be decided in the competent fora". (ANSA).