The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday 344 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the past week.
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Human Rights Watch has called on Libya’s House of Representatives to repeal a 2022 Anti-Cybercrime Law, which the NGO says it “restricts freedoms of speech”, and urging authorities in eastern Libya to “immediately release anyone they are holding under this law for peaceful expression.”
The European Union (EU) announced its support to the Government of Niger in the field of assistance, protection and the search for durable solutions for asylum seekers and refugees who were evacuated from Libya through a project implemented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that extends to 2024.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday stressed that his Office will strengthen its work on Libya, where the human rights situation continues to deteriorate amid widespread violence by armed actors, ongoing political deadlock, and deepening curbs on civic space.
Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants are being smuggled aboard charter flights into Libya where they get onto boats to reach Europe, according to MaltaToday.
Libya’s Minister of Justice, Halima Ibrahim Abdel-Rahman, met in Tripoli last Monday with the French Ambassador to Libya, Mostafa Mihraje, for talks on human rights and national reconciliation, according to a brief statement released today by the Ministry of Justice.
Aguila Saleh, the Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, has called today on the 6+6 committee, jointly formed with the High Council of State to draft elections laws, to accelerate its work.
“Nothing prevents Libya from holding elections this year except for lack of political will or unwillingness to compromise among key leaders,” said Barbara Leaf, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs on Thursday.
In a new indication of diminishing chances of new armed clashes between the military parties in eastern and western Libya, and perhaps fading away altogether, the parties’ representatives concluded new agreements in Tripoli, the most prominent of which was the formation of a joint force with various tasks, and opening the door to discussion on demobilizing militia members and integrating them into the ministries of defense and interior, in the presence of representatives of large and powerful armed formations in the Libyan West, for the first time.
Ocean Viking, a European rescue ship operated by SOS Mediterranee, saved on Saturday afternoon 92 migrants who were on board an overcrowded and deflated rubber boat in international waters off Libya.