Malta: where hysteria is no answer to the plight of refugees

On the second day of the crossing from Libya to Europe, Richard Josiah was asked to throw the bodies of two emaciated Somali women into the sea. The wintry waters of the Mediterranean were unforgiving, but the order was clear. "You cannot have dead bodies rotting next to you," says the 30-year-old, who was recently released from 18 months in a detention centre in Malta. "They were weak and ill ...