Hundreds of migrants clash with Italian police in riot

Up to 250 migrants being detained in the Italian capital Rome barricaded themselves inside their detention center on Thursday a week after a Tunisian detainee sewed his mouth shut in protest against their poor treatment. La Repubblica reported that around a third of the 780 migrants held at the facility in Castelnuovo di Porto took part in the stand-off, which was dispersed by the police using a water hose. Protesters also threw rocks at the police. Angiolo Marroni, from the regional prisoners’ rights organization (Garante dei Diritti dei Detenuti del Lazio) told the newspaper, “centres of identification and expulsion continue to be real places of desperate detention, where the recognition of fundamental rights is fleeting.”