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Sub-Saharan African migrants mill around the Tariq al-Sikka detention facility near Tripoli. A similar centre was bombed this month, killing 53. But even life outside on the streets is not safe for migrants (Photo: unsmil.unmissions.org)

Libyan lawyers: EU is complicit in torture

by Marwa Mohamed, London,

Last Wednesday (3 July), Fathi Bashagha, the minister of interior for the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), announced that his office is looking into ending the detention of refugees and migrants in Libya and releasing all those currently detained in centres under the control of the GNA's Department for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM).

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EU & the World Migration Opinion

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Marwa Mohamed is head of advocacy and outreach at Lawyers for Justice in Libya.

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Sub-Saharan African migrants mill around the Tariq al-Sikka detention facility near Tripoli. A similar centre was bombed this month, killing 53. But even life outside on the streets is not safe for migrants (Photo: unsmil.unmissions.org)

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EU & the World Migration Opinion

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Marwa Mohamed is head of advocacy and outreach at Lawyers for Justice in Libya.

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