Human Rights Watch has urged Italy and the European Union to condition their support to Libya on tangible improvements in detention conditions for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

The Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Anthony Bellanger called in a statement Friday on the Presidential Council (PC) and all authorities in Libya to take full responsibility for the protection of journalists working in areas under their control.

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Italy has recorded an 80 per cent drop off immigrants reaching its costs compared to 2017. The number of clandestine immigrants arriving in Europe in 2018 fell by 92 per cent, compared to the peak of immigration rates recorded in 2015.

The Ministry of Interior deplored in a statement issued yesterday reports of harassment, violent attacks and threats to journalists by some who identify themselves to be affiliated to the Ministry of Interior, as it put it.

The number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter in 2018 over the previous year, to 2,262, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday.

The Libyan Centre for Press Freedom demanded in a statement for the immediate release of journalist Ismail Bouzreibeh, who was arrested in Ajdabiya city east of Libya, by the Internal Security forces affiliated to the Dignity Operation.

Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms has rescued 311 migrants in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Libya, it said on Saturday.

On the walls of Souq al Khamis migrant detention centre in Khoms, a port city in northwest Libya, warnings of new arrivals are scratched on a grey wall.

Municipalities from eastern Libya and members of the Benghazi Association held on Tuesday in Tripoli a press conference to call on the United Nations to take action regarding the crimes committed in Benghazi before the kickoff of Dignity Operation in 2014 and afterwards.