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.

A group of Libyan men were subjected to systematic abuse, curfews, and wrongful imprisonment, and threatened with deportation, as a result of years of secret collusion between Britain’s security and intelligence agencies – MI5 and MI6 – and the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the High Court in London heard …

The sea route between Libya and Italy is the world’s deadliest for migrants and refugees, according to the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR. More than 2,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean this year, according to the International Organization of Migration.

More than 90 people rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea last month by the merchant ship Nivin are still being held in Libya after they were forcibly removed from the ship by Libyan security forces in Misrata. This assault underscores the increasingly harsh treatment of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers …