Due to a crackdown operation in Tripoli last week, numbers of migrants held in Libyan detention centers have tripled, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Wednesday in a press statement.
The organization, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said it was “profoundly disturbed” by the increase. It also witnessed many detainees being held in “overcrowded and unsanitary conditions without access to sufficient food, water, shelter, or medical care.”
“We are seeing security forces take extreme measures to arbitrarily detain more vulnerable people in inhumane conditions in severely overcrowded facilities,” said MSF’s operations manager for Libya Ellen van der Velden, in a statement.
The organization said many of the captured individuals reported experiencing “severe physical violence, including sexual violence” during the raids and also in the detention camps.