Libyan security forces dispersed and arrested migrants outside of a community center in Tripoli, rights groups said today. The migrants had been conducting a sit-in outside of the United Nations-affiliated center when Libyan police dispersed them “with force” and conducted arrests last night, the Belaady Organization for Human Rights, a Libyan nongovernmental organization (NGO), said on Facebook. The Norwegian Refugee Council, another humanitarian NGO, said more than 600 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers were detained — women and children among them. The Community Day Center used to provide humanitarian assistance to them before closing last December. Libya is a major transit center for people from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere who seek to illegally enter Europe.

Source: Libya Today January 11, 2022 07:09 UTC