Amnesty calls EU complicit in new Libyan crackdown on migrants
Amnesty said the bloc is complicit in abuses as Libya’s authorities carry out mass arrests and expulsions against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
- On Tuesday, Amnesty International condemned a European Union move to expand migration cooperation with Libyan authorities despite an intensifying crackdown on migrants and the use of xenophobic discourse.
- Since Muammar Gaddafi's 2011 death, Libya has remained divided between the United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli and an eastern administration backed by military commander Khalifa Haftar, fostering widespread abuse.
- The European Union plans to establish a Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Benghazi, a move Amnesty Deputy Regional Director Diana Eltahawy says makes the bloc "complicit in horrific violations and abuses."
- Eltahawy urged the European Union to "suspend their containment policies that trap people in cycles of abuse," arguing that financial support for the Libyan coast guard shows a "shocking disregard" for international law.
- Around 900,000 migrants and refugees currently live in Libya, where rival administrations have escalated a campaign of racially discriminatory mass arrests and arbitrary detention, intensifying anti-migrant sentiment among Libyans.
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In a report published on Tuesday, the NGO warns the European Union, which is planning to extend its cooperation with rival Libyan authorities and their armed allied groups. Amnesty International calls on European countries to suspend their migration policies concerning Libya on the basis of a...
The NGO denounces in a report a "campaign" of the Libyan authorities, "fed by xenophobic discourse, mass arrests, arbitrary detentions and illegal collective expulsions".
Amnesty calls EU complicit in new Libyan crackdown on migrants
Authorities in eastern and western Libya have intensified a crackdown on migrants and refugees in the last month with mass arrests, detentions and expulsions, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, accusing the EU of complicity in abuse.
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