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The use by the EU’s border agency, Frontex, of aerial surveillance to enable the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept migrant boats, knowing that migrants and asylum seekers will face systematic and widespread abuse when forcibly returned to Libya, makes Frontex complicit in the abuse, Human Rights Watch and Border Forensics said in a multimedia research feature released today.

The U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, and Chairman of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, spoke on the phone on Sunday to discuss Presidential Council’s proposal to meet with the leaders of the House of Representatives and the High Council of State.

Chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, met on Saturday with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, in Riyadh, for talks on the political situation in Libya.