A security operation releases another 76 kidnapped migrants and tortured by criminal gangs in the Madrid 9 FEB. (Europa Press) zone –
The Attorney General of Libya has denounced this Sunday the appearance of a common grave in the southeast of the country with the mortal remains of 28 dead migrants at the hands of traffickers of people.
“This is a band whose members deliberately submitted illegal migrants to torture and a cruel and inhuman treatment,” the Prosecutor’s Office on the discovery of the common grave in the city of Kufra has known.
The discovery of the pit came after an operation against these organizations that has been paid with three detainees and the release of 76 migrants more of the “forced detention” in which they were, according to the message of the Prosecutor’s Office, published in their Facebook page.
Libya is one of the world’s most hostile countries towards migration. United Nations and various NGOs have denounced that many of these people are exposed to abuse and violations of their rights at the hands of criminal groups and even militias associated with Libyan authorities.
For example, the United Nations claimed in the mid -“immediate and transparent investigation” on acts of torture to detained in a prison in eastern Libya, following “shocking” images that circulate on social networks about ill -treatment in the Gernada detention center, about 250 kilometers away from the city of Benghazi.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has shown its “alarm” for these images about “brutal torture and ill -treatment” in these facilities, in which “numerous detainees, libyans and foreigners are seen, being subjected to violent aggressions and uncomfortable positions by uniformed guards. “
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