InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/15
Italy s national detainee rights chief has said that severe problems remain at the country s migrant repatriation centers (CPRs). He is calling for structural changes as well as legislative intervention.
Italy s detainee rights ombudsman Mauro Palma wrote in a report published Tuesday that migrants at repatriation centers were exposed to problems that weigh irremediably on [their] rights.
He called for structural improvements and on local health authorities to regularly check on hygiene conditions at CPRs. He also said that migrants at CPRs should have the possibility to make and receive telephone calls.
Palma said that CPRs rudimentary architecture lacked spaces for socializing and worship, which also increases tension.
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 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
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/08
Italy s Supreme Court of Cassation has confirmed a life sentence for Osman M., known as Ismail, for killing and abusing detainees at the camp of Bani Walid in Libya. The judges said that the man killed at least six people and tortured and raped detainees beyond any reasonable doubt .
The Supreme Court of Cassation (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) has confirmed a life sentence for Osman M., known as Ismail, for torturing, raping and killing detainees at the camp of Bani Walid in Libya. That s according to the motivation of the ruling published by the court on March 4.