198 migrants aboard 2 boats were intercepted last night by the Tripoli-based coast guard and brought back to Libya where they disembarked in Zawiya and in Tripoli, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Saturday.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday that 216 migrants were rescued off Libya’s western coast.
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The Tripoli-based Naval Forces intercepted on Sunday 100 migrants of several African nationalities in the Mediterranean and returned them to Zawiya west of Tripoli, according to the Navy Protocol and Information Office.
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An Italian court has sentenced a captain to a year in prison for handing migrants his ship’s crew rescued over to the Libyan coast guard in 2018. The incident had sparked heated debate in Italy.
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A Coast Guard patrol saved 70 migrants off Libya’s western coast, said the Tripoli-based Libyan Navy on Wednesday.
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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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