Libya: UN Calls For Migrant Detention Centers To Be Shutdown - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 14, 2019
The United Nations, UN has called for the dismantling of all detention centers for refugees in Libya, saying the facilities are not fit to host migrants.
The appeal comes nearly two weeks after more thanfifty people were killed in an air strike on a holding facility in the Libyancapital Tripoli. The victims were mostly Africans attempting to reach Europe onboats after fleeing poverty and conflict.
The UN refugee agency has called the facilities inthe centres “awful”.
Thousands of migrants are being held in direconditions in government-run detention centres across Libya.
The recent air strike on one of them during fightingin Tripoli has revealed how dangerous these facilities can be.
The UN refugee agency said the centres should bedismantled immediately, and their detainees freed into their surroundingcommunities. The agency said it is ready to help support them there.