An Eritrean man accused of running a camp in Libya and subjecting migrants to "severe beatings, kidnapping, rape and or unlawful deprivation of liberty," has been put on a wanted list in the Netherlands. He has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Ethiopia for similar crimes.
An Italian court has sentenced a captain to a year in prison for handing migrants his ship's crew rescued over to the Libyan coast guard in 2018. The incident had sparked heated debate in Italy.
Various UN agencies have denounced violence against migrants in Libya after security forces shot dead at least half a dozen asylum seekers in recent days.
The bodies of 15 persons were recovered Monday evening, following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, while 177 survivors were returned to land by the Libyan coast guard, according to UN agencies.
Amnesty International denounced an operation that took place October 1 in Libya, in which security forces and militias in Tripoli used illegal lethal arms and other forms of violence in an unprecedented roundup of more than 5,000 men, women and children from Sub-Saharan Africa, who are now being held in horrid conditions.
At least six migrants have been killed after guards opened fire at an overcrowded detention facility. It is the latest violence against migrants following recent mass arrests.
Following days of mass arrests in Tripoli, the population of Libya's already overcrowded detention centers has tripled, say the humanitarian medical charity Doctors without Borders, MSF.
The Libyan Red Crescent says the bodies of 17 people were washed ashore in western Libya on Tuesday.
A UN report by human rights investigators in Libya details a number of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity against detainees and migrants in Libyan prisons. The investigators said that they now have a confidential list of suspects.
Libyan armed forces have detained more than 5,000 migrants, including hundreds of children and pregnant women, in a major raid. Meanwhile the country's coast guard intercepted and brought back hundreds of people who were trying to reach Europe.
The Geo Barents rescue ship, run by the medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), docked in a Sicilian port on Wednesday and disembarked the 60 migrants it had rescued just over a week earlier.
All 122 migrants on board the charity ship Ocean Viking safely disembarked on the Italian island of Sicily over the weekend. Meanwhile, another migrant rescue vessel, the Geo Barents, is still waiting for a port of safety for 60 rescued passengers and its crew.