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Urgent 🚨 Happening in Tobruk, Libya
Every day we are receiving disturbing messages and images from refugees held in a government detention centre in Tobruk. The guards at the camp are demanding ransom for the release of each detainee. We have been told that the number of refugees detained there exceeds 900 and keeps increasing daily.
This facility is under the DCIM—an entity that receives millions of European taxpayers’ money through the Italy–Libya MoU of 2017. When we say that the so-called officials are the ones committing human trafficking, no one wants to believe it. But what could be more like human trafficking than this practice, in conditions amounting to a concentration camp in the middle of the desert?
Meanwhile, UNHCR in Libya remains silent and does nothing to liberate these refugees—people from Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bangladesh, and other countries—nationalities that, according to UNHCR, qualify for asylum in Libya. This is slavery, and it is happening in 2025.
We are publishing this to call on your attention and rage—to ask you to do something. Share this, write to UN agencies, to the Libyan and European governments, particularly to the Meloni administration. She often travels to Libya yet has never set foot in the detention centres she claims exist to “protect” refugees from traffickers, while she and her allies practice the very same crime.
The people detained here are denied medical aid, given insufficient food, and forced to sleep on dirty concrete floors. There are also serious allegations of rape and sex trafficking.
People of the world, do something.
Source: @RefugeesinLybia
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