A number of Libyan citizens held a protest on Wednesday, in front of the UN mission’s HQ in Janzour district, west of Tripoli, to demand the expulsion of the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame.
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NGOs decry Tunisia sending refugees back to Libya
Tunisia’s defence ministry said Monday it had prevented 53 Ivorian and Sudanese citizens from illegally entering the country, a move condemned by NGOs as a violation of rights.
Read More »Human Rights Solidarity: 424 killed in violent crimes in first half of 2019
Human Rights Solidarity said that it has documented the death of 424 civilians in violent incidents, in Libya, during the first half of this year, noting that statics do not include the victims of armed clashes.
Read More »More migrants moved to ‘unsafe’ Libya centre despite risks of repeat deadly airstrike
A number of migrants in Libya have been moved to a detention centre in the capital that was hit with an airstrike earlier this month, despite a risk it could be hit again, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday.
Read More »UN agencies call for resumption of EU naval rescue operations
Two United Nations agencies have called on the European countries to resume rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea and to stop refugee and migrant returns to Libya, where they face dire conditions and are at risk due to the ongoing conflict.
Read More »Libya rights groups call for immediate evacuation of refugee centre
Some 38 Libyan rights groups yesterday called on the authorities to urgently evacuate the refugees and migrants held in detention centres in the country in the wake of an air strike which killed 60, the Anadolu Agency reported.
Read More »MSF calls for immediate evacuation of migrants from Libya
Doctors Without Borders Wednesday called for urgent evacuation of refugees and migrants held in detention centers in Libya in the wake of a fresh attack killing many of them.
Read More »MSF: Catastrophic situation at Libyan migrants’ detention centres
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that there is a ”catastrophic situation” in Libyan detention centers that it visited.
Read More »Haftar’s general command to punish anti-Tripoli-attack activists
Khalifa Haftar’s Dignity Operation command has issued a statement threatening to punish all journalists, media figures, activists and political analysts who oppose its offensive against Tripoli, describing them as “inciting hate and crime against the army forces and supporting terrorism.”
Read More »As Tripoli conflict continues, detained migrants run out of food
In Abu Salim Detention Centre, in southern Tripoli in Libya, refugees and migrants say the price of food has more than doubled since clashes started on April 4.
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