In the wake of the CNN report on human auctions in Libya, there has rightly been a surge in concern for the thousands of Africans languishing in inhumane conditions in detention camps.
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CNN slave market report is ill-founded, Libyan human rights group says
Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) has expressed deep concern over the mistreatment and abuse of migrants in Libya by human traffickers amid claims of being sold as slaves in “public auction”.
Read More »‘Slavery is an outrageous reality in Libya’
A group of UN human rights experts has strongly condemned Libya’s slave trade amid reports that hundreds of African refugees are being bought and sold in markets across the country every week.
Read More »Libyan PM Sarraj hopes for easing of arms embargo
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said on Thursday that he was hopeful that a UN-imposed arms embargo would be partially lifted against some branches of the country’s military.
Read More »EU, UN, African leaders draw up emergency plan for migrants in Libya
The European Union, United Nations and African Union have agreed to an emergency plan to dismantle people-smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants, in an effort to ease a human rights disaster in Libya, officials said.
Read More »African refugees bought, sold and murdered in Libya
Hundreds of African refugees are being bought and sold in “slave markets” across Libya every week, a human trafficker has told Al Jazeera, with many of them held for ransom or forced into prostitution and sexual exploitation to pay their captors and smugglers.
Read More »Who is really responsible for Libya’s slave trade?
Reports in recent weeks of sub-Saharan African migrants being sold as slaves in secret auctions in Libya, have caused shock and global condemnation.
Read More »Exclusive: Migrants speak of ‘unbearable torture’ at Libya slave auctions
Survivors of slave auctions in Libya speak of “unbearable torture” and “living hell”, as hidden camera footage showing migrants being sold off prompted global outrage last week.
Read More »LNA captures Derna militant involved in 2015 beheading
An Islamic State (IS) militant who was involved in the beheading in Derna of a Libyan National Army (LNA) soldier in 2015 has been captured in an LNA undercover operation in the town, it has been revealed.
Read More »Qassem says CNN report on slave trafficking is fabricated
The spokesperson of the Libyan Navy Forces, Ayoub Qassem, said, in a press release, that the CNN TV report on slave trafficking in Libya was a fabrication and a false accusation. He added that Libya is doing its best in fighting the illegal migration.
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