Libya transfers migrants rescued from year's worst shipwreck back to bombed detention centre

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7/26/2019 | Our Foreign Staff

[RightGeek]

Libyan authorities on Friday transferred dozens of migrants rescued from this year's worst Mediterranean shipwreck to a detention centre near Tripoli that was hit by an airstrike earlier this month, ignoring protests from the United Nations.

The much-criticised move came as Libya's coastguard recovered scores of bodies in ongoing search operations, the day after up to 150 people, including women and children, were feared drowned when their boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.

A top UN official described Thursday's shipwreck as "the worst Mediterranean tragedy" so far this year.

The Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency in the Libyan capital said that up to 350 migrants were onboard the boats that capsized on Thursday off the town of Khoms, around 75 miles east of Tripoli. The migrants include nationals from Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Libya, the agency said.

Libyan officials said more than 130 migrants have been rescued since Thursday.

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Amnesty International called on EU leaders to reverse their decision to halt migrant rescues in the Mediterranean. The rights group appealed to European nations to change "their approach to a humane one which saves lives and doesn't condemn those who survive to detention in Libya".

The European Union has partnered with conflict-torn Libya to prevent migrants from making the maritime journey to Europe. Rights groups say those efforts have left migrants at the mercy of brutal armed groups or confined in squalid detention centres that lack adequate food and water.

[RightGeek]

A modest suggestion: don't try to sneak into a foreign country.

[IgnaciKat]

Not a tragedy, a lucky break instead.

[dynachrome]

“left migrants at the mercy of brutal armed groups or confined in squalid detention centres that lack adequate food and water.”

Stay in your craphole of a country, then.

[mrmeyer]

All out of give a f**ks

[fini]

""left migrants at the mercy of brutal armed groups or confined in squalid detention centres that lack adequate food and water."

Stay in your craphole of a country, then."

And once you get back, start the fight to make your country worth staying in.

[Amberdawn]

AI’s founder has turned against the group, for good reason. The Leftards that infiltrated Amnesty don’t care about laws, nor about the hundreds of rapes and other crimes the “migrants” they shill for have committed against European natives. Screw them.