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On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry of the Libyan Government of National Accord said it has detained Abdel Rahman Milad, the commander of the Coast Guard, who is on the list of sanctions issued by nations.
The Interior Ministry of the Libyan Government of National Accord said on Wednesday that it has detained Abdel Rahman Milad, the commander of the Coast Guard, who is on the United Nations sanctions list, for allegations of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
The ministry said it had detained Milad at the request of the UN Security Council and referred the case to the Attorney General for legal action against him.
Milad runs a Coast Guard unit in Zawiya, west of Tripoli, and was one of six people punished by the United Nations for his involvement in human trafficking or smuggling in Libya two years ago.
The migrants had stated that they were taken to a detention center aboard one of the boats used by Milad and then held in brutal conditions and beaten. In a call to Reuters in 2018, he denied any wrongdoing or involvement in smuggling.
Militia tension
In what appears to be a return to reckoning between militias affiliated with the Government of National Accord in the Libyan capital Tripoli and the surrounding areas, elements of the Zawiya militia closed “Bridge 27” leading to the capital Tripoli. , Wednesday at noon.
According to Mahmoud bin Jaber, the Tripoli security officer, the Zawiya militia carried out this action after the arrest of Abdul Rahman Milad, known as al-Bidja.
Bin Jaber added, in a statement to Erm News, that the Al-Rada militia affiliated with the Al-Wefaq Forces had arrested Abdul-Rahman Milad Al-Muqlab with “Al-Baida”, whom the Al-Wefaq government had assigned the tasks of presiding over his coast guard.
Libyan army forces arrested Al-Baida and handed him over to the judicial police in Al-Zawiya, who in turn deposited him in prison, before terrorist elements and militias affiliated with the Government of National Accord stormed the prison headquarters. and release more than 30 terrorist elements from the prison, including that of Baida.
In the same context, Bin Jaber indicated that elements of Al-Radaa had liquidated a member of the Al-Nawasi Brigade, named (Khaled Al-Mashouka), born in February 1994, and a resident of the Souq Al-Jumaa area. .
Bin Jaber explained that gunmen from Rada’a opened fire on Al-Mushka, killing him and wounding another member who was accompanying him on Wednesday night.
