All asylum requests of 43 migrants at an innovative but controversial new Italian-run processing centre in Albania have been rejected, according to ANSA.

A day after videoconference hearings with the Asylum Commission to examine the process of the applications for international protection, the response arrived Thursday and all 43 were judged to be 'manifestly unfounded'.The 43 migrants will now have 7 days to appeal the rejection of their application.

For the Asylum and Immigration Committee, which is on the third day of its mission in Albania with the parliamentarians of the contact group for the monitoring of the Italian-Albanian centers, "the Commissions clearly operate in continuity with the manifest will of the executive to reject asylum seekers, in contempt of international, European and constitutional law".

The Committee in fact denounces that "the people were not able to seek legal assistance nor were they able to prepare for the hearings with adequate legal information".

"We are faced - it underlines - with a procedure that is in fact illegitimate due to the lack of protections provided by the legislation in force".

This model, it adds, "has the sole objective of canceling the right to asylum and continuing to propose a negative and criminalizing image of those who arrive on our shores." Meanwhile rulings on the legality under international law of the migrants' detention, after two previous batches' detention was ruled unlawful last year leading to the halt of the much-trumpeted scheme, were postponed until Friday at Italian courts of appeal.

The migrants are from Egypt and Bangladesh, two countries whose territory was not wholly judge safe in the previous two rulings.

Rome has since updated its list of safe countries but the list still includes the two countries.

The scheme has aroused international interest but condemnation from rights groups.

The scheme has been costed at some 800 million euros over five years and is estimated to be able to process 3,000 migrants a month.