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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Europe silent on plight of detainees in Libya, says migration chief

Refugees in a boat are detained.
Migrants heading to Europe are brought back to port after being intercepted in the Mediterranean sea by the Libyan coastguard. Photograph: Yousef Murad/AP

Europe has been accused by a senior international official of acquiescence over the plight of thousands of migrants in Libya held in arbitrary detention in “deplorable conditions”.

Federico Soda, chief of mission at the International Organisation for Migration’s mission in Libya, said not enough was being done by outside actors to try to change the war-torn country’s “environment of arbitrary detention and deplorable conditions” for migrants.

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