The Libyan authorities have rounded up and detained more than 5,000 migrants and refugees in weekend raids, as a UN fact-finding mission finds “widespread scale” of rights abuses since 2016
The Libyan authorities have rounded up and detained more than 5,000 migrants and refugees in sweeping weekend raids, according to the latest tally by the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration .
The IOM tally, dated October 3 and obtained on Monday by The Associated Press news agency, showed 215 children and over 540 women were taken to various detention centres across Tripoli. Among them, at least 30 were pregnant. A communications shutdown during the raids barred access to information and assistance.
The IOM document, which said 5,152 migrants had been detained since Friday, says numbers are likely to increase as the crackdown continues in several parts of the area, also known as the Andalus neighbourhood. Human rights groups and the UN have repeatedly denounced the abuses in Libya’s detention centres across the country.they had found evidence war crimes have been committed in Libya since 2016 by all parties to the conflicts that have plagued the country. It also found that “violence perpetrated in prisons and against migrants there may amount to crimes against humanity.”
Based on interviews with more than 50 refugees and migrants in detention in Libya, 49 of whom were detained directly following their interceptions at sea by the Libyan coastguard in 2020 and 2021, the report highlights what it terms the “shameful” consequences of the EU’s ongoing cooperation with Libya on migration and border control.
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