No safe place to go for asylum-seekers snared in Libya dragnet
Desperate refugees and asylum-seekers in Tripoli in urgent need of assistance and protection amid security sweeps. By Mohamed Alalem and Anas Abumais in Tripoli, Libya. When Libyan forces swept through Tripoli’s Gergaresh neighbourhood earlier this month in a...
UNHCR appeals for end to arrests of asylum seekers in Libya, calls for urgent resumption of humanitarian flights
This statement is attributable to Ayman Gharaibeh, Director of UNHCR’s Regional Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa We are increasingly alarmed about the humanitarian situation for asylum seekers and refugees in Libya. Following a large-scale security...
IOM and UNHCR condemn the return of migrants and refugees to Libya
Joint UNHCR/IOM press release The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, can confirm that over 270 migrants and refugees were handed over to the Libyan Coast Guard by the ship “Vos Triton”, sailing under the flag of Gibraltar....