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Source: Dubai – Arabia.net
“Buying and selling, torture, extortion and sexual violence” is perhaps a small part of what migrants are exposed to in detention centers in Libya. In previous testimonies, several immigrants told Al-Arabiya.net the horrors of what they were subjected to in these detention centers, which they described as hell.
In the latest developments in this humanitarian file, the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in a report presented to the UN Security Council, called on the Libyan authorities to close the detention centers for irregular migrants, expressing his strong condemnation to the violations to which these people are subjected in these centers.
Guterres said in a report, as Agence France-Presse reported on Friday: “Nothing can justify the appalling conditions in which refugees and migrants are detained in Libya.”
He added: “I renew my call to the Libyan authorities to close all detention centers, in close coordination with United Nations agencies.”
Migrants in Libya (Archives – France Press)
Children are detained
According to the report, the United Nations estimates that “as of July 31, 2020, there were more than 2,780 people, 22% of whom were children, detained in centers” designated for the detention of illegal immigrants in Libya.
Guterres highlighted in his report that “children cannot be detained at all, especially when they are unaccompanied or separated from their families,” and called on the Libyan authorities to transfer these children to specialized homes for their care until solutions are found. long term for them.
In addition, it denounced the “appalling conditions and mistreatment” suffered by refugees and migrants in detention centers, “including reports of torture, forced disappearances and sexual violence at the hands of DCIM officials, in addition to the shortage of food and care. medical “.
Migrants in Libya (Archives – France Press)
They are left to die in the undergrowth.
According to the Guterres report, “men and boys are routinely threatened with violence when they communicate with their families to pressure them to send ransom money.”
It also noted that migrants and refugees were exposed to gunfire when they tried to flee, resulting in injuries and deaths among them. “When migrants and refugees are believed to be too weak to survive, they are often taken to nearby hospitals and left there or left on the streets or in the forest to die,” he added.
Migrants in Libya (Archives – France Press)
In addition, he emphasized that in detention centers that contain weapons and ammunition warehouses, some refugees and migrants are forcibly recruited, while another section is forced to repair or ammunition from weapons belonging to armed groups.
It should be noted that many reports and testimonies issued by migrants indicated that some of these detention centers, especially in Tripoli, are under the authority of officials of the Government of National Accord.
Migrants in Libya (Archives – France Press)
In a previous report, published by the Associated Press, it indicated that some of these detention centers are occupied by officials in contact with the Government of National Accord. So once we look at who runs the anti-immigration agency and runs the detention camps, and who oversees the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean and their return to Libya, we conclude that there is a link between the people that the reconciliation government, headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, has established to supervise this apparatus, and the leaders of the militias and the lords of smuggling.
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