Iraqi Kurdish migrant dies of ’starvation’ in Libyan detention

Iraqi Kurdish migrant dies of ’starvation’ in Libyan detention

Hogr Aso, a 22-year-old Kurdish man from the Hajiawa sub-district of Sulaimaniyah province in Iraqi Kurdistan, began his journey to Europe by flying from Erbil International Airport to Egypt on August 31, seeking to escape poverty. However, his body was recently repatriated after he died from starvation and illness in a detention centre operated by the Libyan government in Tripoli. Hogr's father, Aso, told The New Arab his son left Kurdistan due…