InfoMigrants By Leslie Carretero Published on : 2021/03/09
Seventy migrants who were reportedly beaten and tortured in six secret prisons in the Libyan city of Bani Walid have been released. The city is considered a hub of human trafficking in Libya.
Operations by Libyan authorities to combat migrant trafficking have rarely been reported in the past. But in recent weeks, efforts appear to have been stepped up, with the news in February that 150 migrants had been released from an underground prison in Kufra and the arrest in early March of a man suspected of having murdered 30 migrants.
The latest operation on March 5 took place in the town of Bani Walid, about 100 kilometers south of Tripoli, the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) said in a statement. Reported in the Libya Observer, the statement said: The NCHRL has welcomed and praised the security operation carried out successfully by the 444th Br