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| UN Secretary-General urges Libya to seize prisons’ control from militias |
| 2019-01-13 |
| [LIBYANEXPRESS] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging the Libyan government to bring all prisons under its control and free from the grip of militias, some of whom run migrant-smuggling networks. Guterres said in a report to the Security Council released Thursday, January 10, that torture and arbitrary detention is widespread in Libya. About 6,400 detainees are held in 26 official prisons but "thousands of others" are being held in facilities with little government control or "directly run by gangs," said the report. "I remain deeply concerned about widespread human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations and abuses committed in the context of detention and the prolonged arbitrary detention of thousands of men, women and kiddies without due process," wrote Guterres. The government must protect detainees against torture and "all prisons must be under effective government control and free of any influence or interference of gangs," he added. Guterres also reported that an increase in the number of About 5,300 refugees and In all, there are over 669,000 |
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