The European Union must stop helping to return people to hellish conditions in Libya, Amnesty International said today as the bloc marks five years of formal cooperation to intercept refugees and migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean. The number of people intercepted at sea and returned to Libya in the last five years is over 82 000. Men, women and children returned to Libya face arbitrary detention, torture, cruel and inhuman detention conditions, rape and sexual violence, extortion, forced labour and unlawful killings. Al-Khoja was previously in effective control of the Tariq al-Sikka detention centre, where extensive abuses have been documented. "EU leaders' cooperation with Libyan authorities is keeping desperate people trapped in unimaginable horrors in Libya.

Source: Libya Today February 01, 2022 01:23 UTC