Security forces in Tripoli used “unnecessary and disproportionate” force to detain migrants, shooting dead some of those trying to escape, the UN human rights office has said as it demanded an inquiry into the violence.
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177 migrants survived Monday night after the Tripoli-based Libyan Coast Guard intercepted two boats which had set off from Zwara and Khoms the night before, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
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Migrants held at Tripoli’s Ghout al-Shaal detention center managed to escape the facility yesterday due to inadequate security measures, according to a security force based in the capital.
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Libyan guards shot dead six African migrants in a detention centre in Tripoli on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, denouncing “terrible” living conditions in the overcrowded place.
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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.
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At least 17 bodies, likely of Europe-bound migrants, have washed ashore in western Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Wednesday.
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One migrant was killed and at least 15 others injured, six seriously, when security forces in Tripoli carried out raids on houses and temporary makeshift shelters on Friday in Gargaresh, an area of Tripoli heavily populated by migrants and asylum-seekers.
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Nearly 500 migrants were intercepted at sea on wooden boat Sunday morning by the Tripoli-based Libyan Coast Guard, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published its report issued on September 24, 2021, on Libya, in which it stated that a total of 24,420 migrants and refugees were intercepted and brought back to Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard.
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The Tripoli-based Libyan Coast Guard intercepted 134 migrants on Monday evening, said the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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