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Libyan detention centres now hold around 1,500 people - down from 5,000 last year (Photo: UNHCR.org)

EU financial support for Libya coastguard under scrutiny

A team of legal and academic experts are challenging the EU's financial support for the Libyan coast guard.

The group says it breaches the EU's own budget rules - given the human rights abuses in Libya - and have asked the EU's financial watchdog, the European Court of Auditors, to launch an investigation.

NGOs and organisations such as the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) earlier this week filed a

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Libyan detention centres now hold around 1,500 people - down from 5,000 last year (Photo: UNHCR.org)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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