In a statement, the Libyan Interior Ministry said that the security services arrested the human trafficker, nicknamed al-Sherir ’the evil man’. It added that the smuggler was caught whilst preparing to transport a group of
Libya has been plagued by corruption and turmoil since a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-backed uprising toppled and killed long-time leader, Muammar Qadaffy
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
in 2011. Since then, the oil-rich country has emerged as a major transit point for people hoping to reach Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...by crossing the Mediterranean.
Human traffickers in Libya have taken advantage of the state of insecurity and chaos following the 2011 uprising to send thousands of illegal