Libya: 1,200 refugees threatened with deportation. Silence about their rights trampled
Emilio Drudi
There are over 1,200 refugees and migrants who risk deportation from Libya to their countries of origin. At best, once returned to the government from which they fled, they expect a process for illegal immigration, but in reality, many years in prison or even death. Species in Eritrea, where the flight from the country is equivalent in practice to desertion from the army. And the Eritreans are many: 350 of those 1,200. The others are from Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Niger and Chad. They were all concentrated in two prisons in the south about 70 km distant from each other, and Barika Sebha, where they are detained foreigners classified as sick. And the disease seems to be the justification from Tripoli to the deportation order. It also discussed the Libyan television and radio.
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