Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that it treated 68 people who had been injured during a mass arrest some days prior in Libya. This proves once again "how migrants are subject to random and arbitrary detention," MSF operations manager Ellen van der Velden said.
Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, including women and children, were rounded up outside the former UNHCR Community Development Center in Tripoli early on Monday morning and taken to detention centers. Now aid groups are reporting serious violence and injuries took place too.
The UNHCR Community Day Center in Tripoli has closed its doors, leaving many stranded without humanitarian assitance. Aid organizations have raised concerns as migrants, refugees and asylum seekers camped outside the center have been met with violence and unlawful arrests.
Two Nigerian migrants have taken a case against Italy and Libya to a UN Committee. The two women, with the help of a legal rights association in Italy, claim that Italy and Libya failed to protect their human rights as women and left them at risk of trafficking, exploitation and abuse.
18-year-old Abdullah from Darfur was held south of Tripoli by a smuggler who tortured him to try to get a ransom. When the money did not arrive, the smuggler covered the Sudanese teenager with gasoline and set him on fire, InfoMigrants was told. Abdullah is now in hospital in Tripoli in a serious condition.
At least 15 people have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe on the weekend. Their bodies washed up on the Libyan coastline, with more casualties expected.
The Greek and Tunisian coast guards have also reported successful rescue missions. Nonetheless, dozens of people have died in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the past several days.
The inquiry established that Rackete had "acted in compliance with the duty to rescue". In June 2019 Rackete decided to enter Italian territorial waters with migrants aboard the ship without prior authorisation.
After receiving threats in Côte d'Ivoire, 19-year-old Sarah fled to Libya. Shortly after her arrival, she was arrested and imprisoned in Tajoura, a suburb of Tripoli. She says the prison guards raped her every night until she gave birth to her son. Today, the young woman dreams of crossing the Mediterranean Sea. This is her story.
Nearly 350 migrants were rescued by the crew of the humanitarian rescue ship Geo Barents in several operations between Wednesday and early Thursday morning. The total number of migrants on the ship is now more than 450.
More than 160 migrants died off Libya over the past week, according to the UN. The total number of migrants who perished on the Central Mediterranean route this year is now over 1,500.
Italy's highest court has ruled that two migrants had the right to refuse to be taken back to Libya after being rescued at sea. Because Libya cannot be considered safe, they had the right to pressure a ship's crew to turn towards Italy, the judges found.