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African immigrants await the help of Spanish volunteers after trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya in a rickety wooden boat. The photo was taken on September 8, 2020.
Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants are suffering immensely in Libya, with little opportunity to find safe and legal solutions to the situation, writes Amnesty International in a new report.
The organization calls on the EU to reassess its cooperation with the Libyan authorities to control immigration to Europe. The EU supports the Libyan coast guard to transport migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean.
“Refugees and migrants suffer immensely in Libya and then risk their lives at sea in their search for safety in Europe, only to be captured and sent back to Libya and subjected to the same abuses from which they tried to escape,” Madelaine said Seidlitz. lawyer and head of work with refugees and migrants at Amnesty Sweden, in a press release.
The Amnesty report attests to extrajudicial executions, torture, rape, arbitrary detentions and forced labor. Abuses are carried out by state and non-state actors who avoid punishment.
Amnesty is therefore demanding that the EU impose requirements on the Libyan authorities.
“They must ensure that any continued support is conditional on demanding an immediate end to the horrific abuses against refugees and migrants,” Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a press release.
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