Augusta: Hundreds of migrants protested for the 10th day Monday outside the United Nations Facilities in the Libyan capital of Tripoli demanded the evacuation of the North African country.
The meeting outside the UN refugee body facility began after Libyan authorities launched hard action against migrants earlier this month in the western city of Gargaresh, holding more than 5,000 people.
The migrants detained were held in crowded detention centers where torture, sexual violence and other harassment were blooming.
Researchers who were not assigned said earlier this month that misuse and ill-treatment of migrants in Libya amounted to crimes against humanity.
The government in Tripoli defended the raid, said it took action against illegal migration and drug trafficking.
Libya plunged into chaos by the 2011 rebellion supported by NATO who rolled and killed the old dictator of Moammar Gadhafi.
The North African country has since emerged as a popular route, if it is very dangerous, for Europe for those who fled poverty and civil war in Africa and the Middle East.
Panic and fearful detention, several hundred migrants have gathered outside the center of the UN refugee community in Tripoli since the crackdown began October 1 at Gargaresh, the migrant center.
The migrants continued their protest even after UNHCR said this Friday for a while suspended his activities in the middle after two workers were injured in the middle of the crowd in the midst of the crowd.
This situation deteriorated outside the center of the day after hundreds of migrants escaped from the crowded Mabani Detention Center in Tripoli on Friday.
Guards shot dead six migrants and injured at least 15 others, according to the UN migration agency.
However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs Libya, who oversees migrant detention centers, said only one migrant who died due to chaotic struggle during bulk runaway.
The recording distributed by migrants shows a crowd outside the facility, with women and children sitting on the road.
Libyan police vehicles also look nearby.
Some migrants hold banners with slogans such as: “Libya, no.
From it, yes,” and “immediate evacuation.” Hanadi al-Nazir, a sudanese migrant, said he was detained together with her husband Friday in the gargaresh attack.
“They beat and whipped us during the raid,” he recalled.
He said security forces tied their hands behind their backs and took him to the Mabani detention center.
Al-Nazir said they managed to escape from the center during bulk runaway.
Since then, they have been shelter outside the UNHCR center that they are afraid they can be detained again.
“Evacuation is the solution,” he said in a telephone interview from outside the center.
“Not safe for us to stay here again.” Abeer Adam is another migrant from the Darfur region which was hit by the Sudanese war.
The 35-year-old mother managed to escape, along with four of her children, when the troops stormed her emergency house in Gargaresh on October 1.
They immediately went to the center of UNHCR, he said.
“Many women and children are still in prison,” he said by telephone.
“All here fear.” The UN refugee body has asked the Libyan authority to enable the commencement of humanitarian flights, which has been suspended for almost a year.
The suspension has led several countries to stop receiving additional resettlement shipments from Libya for 2021, causing losses from 162 places on resettlement flights directly from North African countries, UNHCR said.
Agencies warn that around 1,000 resettlement slots will not be filled from Libya or through an emergency transit mechanism, which allows UNHCR to evacuate people from Libya and then process their claims for long-term solutions.
“This flight is a lifeline” for migrants, the agency said.
Migrants protested outside the UN office in Libya for the 10th day
