InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/04/12
One person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting at a detention center in Tripoli last Thursday, Doctors Without Borders says. The medical charity has called for the immediate release of migrants from Libya’s detention centers.
A migrant died and two others aged 17 and 18 received gunshot wounds during a violent incident at the overcrowded Al-Mabani Collection and Return Center on Thursday, April 8, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. The injured teenagers were taken for urgent medical care by an MSF team. The incident ended with shots being fired indiscriminately into cells were detained people were held, according to the charity.
InfoMigrants By Charlotte Oberti Published on : 2021/04/06
Hundreds of migrants trying to flee Libya by sea are intercepted by the Libyan coast guard each week. The migrants are nearly always returned to detention centres in Libya. InfoMigrants reviews this process.
Taking to the sea with the dream of escaping to Europe, only to be sent straight back to Libya. For countless migrants, attempts to cross the Mediterranean from the Libyan coast end in failure. As recently as March 31, a group of 138 migrants was intercepted off the west coast of Libya and brought back to the naval base in the capital Tripoli by the coast guard.
InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/03/29
The Libyan coast guard has intercepted nearly 1,000 migrants and brought them back to shore in the past 48 hours, according to the IOM. The UN agency says they face the risk of arbitrary detention.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday that nearly 1,000 migrants had been intercepted and returned to Libya by the coast guard and coastal security in the past 48 hours.
Around 500 people were reportedly picked up on Sunday night, according to the IOM s spokesperson in Geneva, Safa Msehli. Over the past 48 hours, nearly 1,000 migrants were intercepted and returned to #Libya by the coast guard and coastal security.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/03/01
Between Friday and Sunday, some 550 migrants were rescued in the Central Mediterranean. While the private rescue organization Sea-Watch said it saved some 450 people, a Libyan patrol boat picked up nearly 100 from a shipwreck, in which 20 passengers are reported missing.
After three consecutive days of rescuing migrants from distress in the central Mediterranean Sea, the crew operating the Sea-Watch 3 vessel handed over some of their rescuees to an Italian coast guard vessel.
According to Sea-Watch, the crew of the Sea-Watch 3 vessel on Sunday night was assisting a wooden boat in distress with ~90 people that was in imminent danger off Lampedusa. At that time, the 55-meter vessel had already picked up 363 people in five operations.
InfoMigrants By Leslie Carretero Published on : 2021/02/22
102 migrants, including two pregnant women and a seven-month-old baby, were disembarked from the Aita Mari rescue ship at the Sicilian port of Augusta on Monday. They had all been rescued on Friday in the Mediterranean Sea. Welcome to Europe were the words that the crew on board the Aita Mari uttered to 102 migrants on Saturday when they learned that Italy had authorized their disembarkation. There was immediate applause on board the humanitarian ship, as could be seen on a video published by the Spanish Maydayterraneo NGO, which charters the Aita Mari.
Anunciamos que por fin podrán dejar atrás el infierno de Libia.