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Oct 2, 2019 8 tweets 9 min read Read on X
#Libya #Refugees Check out this investigation into the UNHCR's operation in Libya & the reality for refugees subjected to unlawful detention.

With @lillomontalto for @euronews.

PART 1: bit.ly/2owJtJQ
PART 2: bit.ly/2ov0fJu

More to come tomorrow. Stay tuned!
@lillomontalto @euronews #Libya I spoke with a former @UNHCRLibya staff who painted an image of an agency overstretched & out of its depth, with asylum seekers left homeless, deprived of medical care & in legal limbo in an increasingly violent Libya.

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@lillomontalto @euronews @UNHCRLibya #Libya In August 2019, Libyan authorities in Tripoli confirmed the shutdown of 3 detention centres in #Misrata #Khoms & #Tajoura, in reality the centres are still open. euronews.com/2019/10/03/unh…
@lillomontalto @euronews @UNHCRLibya . @EUDELtoLibya @UNHCRLibya @GermanAmbLBY what's the alternative to detention you are supporting in #Libya? A group of Sudanese refugees – including mothers, children & newborn babies - have been staying for 2 weeks in front UNHCR office, asking for support. Image
For 2 months, this group was staying in an abandoned storage facility, located some 400 metres from the UNHCR's Community Day Center (CDC) in Gurji. They have been evicted from the abandoned storage 2 weeks ago. Since then they are in the street.
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Previously, the group was also evicted from Ahmed bin Shatwan school-shelter, also visited by Ghassan Salamé (PICS). They have been repeatedly displaced by armed conflict and lack of accommodations. ImageImage
Since June 24, the so called protection cluster has been "busy" trying to find a solution for this group of Sudanese nationals, including newborn babies. In the note below is written that @OCHA_Libya was supposed to follow up the opening of additional shelters for non-Libyans. ImageImage
#Libya The conflict has displaced more than 120,000 people from their homes & destroyed civilian infrastructure. I'm sure many Libyans are facing the same challenges, just as these families, but why international organisation on the ground are not supporting them? ImageImageImage

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Jan 18, 2023
For years people have been illegally sent back from #Italy to #Greece in secret prisons on private ships.

After months of investigating, we’ve found where asylum seekers, including children, are being detained.

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While European passengers are enjoying their holiday trips on board #Superfast ferries, below deck - in metal boxes & dark rooms - asylum seekers from #Afghanistan #Syria & #Iraq are detained.
This metal box is next to where trucks are parked - an area that is considered to be unsafe for passengers during the journey.
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Oct 22, 2022
I just returned from #Turkey. I have spent days with Afghan & Syrian communities in Istanbul & at the border with #Bulgaria. I spoke with lawyers & local activists & archived evidences of pushbacks filmed by refugees who managed to survive violence & repression.

A few thoughts.
For the last years, #Turkey is the 1st address where Afghan refugees either stay permanently or wait at a transit point to cross to #Europe. Besides exploitation by employers & lack of access to public services, they are now facing the threat of detention or deportation to #Iran.
You’ll find them in #Zeytinburnu where restaurants employ a steady stream of runaways, including minors. I met young couples who already paid over the odds for passage over #Iran's treacherous mountains, sometimes waist-deep in snow & are now saving for another perilous journey.
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Feb 27, 2022
[Thread] Here is a collection of most racist coverage of #Russia's attack on #Ukraine. We are being told who deserves war, missiles, & who looks like a good refugee.
This only serves to mislead viewers & decontextualise conflicts. Hypocrisy & its randomness..
“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
@BBCWorld
"This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city".

@CBS
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Oct 1, 2020
[Thread]

Spero abbiate il tempo di leggere la nostra inchiesta su nave #Caprera, mandata dall'Italia in Libia per combattere il traffico di esseri umani. Alcuni dei suoi marinai hanno organizzato un carico di contrabbando + violato l'embargo UN sulle armi
nytimes.com/2020/09/28/wor… Image
L'ex ministro degli interni italiano Matteo Salvini a Tripoli aveva elogiato l'equipaggio della nave Caprera per aver impedito a + 7.000 persone di raggiungere l'Europa.

L'unico problema: la Caprera stessa stava organizzando un carico di contrabbando verso l´Europa. Image
Una prova fondamentale per gli investigatori sono le foto di una festa di addio. Le foto, condivise sul gruppo WhatsApp di nave Caprera, mostrano un sorridente Corbisiero seduto davanti a una grande torta al cioccolato.

Dietro di lui i sacchi di sigarette di contrabbando. ImageImage
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Sep 29, 2020
[Thread]

I hope you’ll take the time to read our full investigation on how #Italy sent a warship to #Libya to fight trafficking &
🇮🇹 sailors gathered a cargo of contraband + broke a UN arms embargo.

On the @nytimes with @PatrickKingsley
nytimes.com/2020/09/28/wor… Image
#Italy's former interior minister Matteo Salvini praised the ship Caprera after it stopped ++ than 7,000 people from reaching Europe.

There was just one problem: the #Caprera was itself smuggling contraband to #Europe. Image
A key piece of evidence for investigators are photos from a farewell party... Photographs shared on the ship’s WhatsApp group showed a grinning Mr. Corbisiero sitting before a large chocolate cake... Behind him were several sacks of contraband cigarettes. ImageImage
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Jul 28, 2020
A local source in #Khoms reported that following disembarkation (70 people) a shooting happened — 5 people were shot, 2 died + other injured. Local IOM team was on the ground.

Survivors have been brought to Souq Al-Khamis detention centre, other escaped.
#Libya Staff from @IOM_Libya, reported that local authorities in #Khoms started shooting when the migrants attempted to escape from the disembarkation point.

Full statement iom.int/news/iom-deplo… Image
#Libya Aboh Ishag, 20 years old from #Darfur #Sudan killed in #Khoms after being intercepted & forcibly brought back by the Libyan coast guard equipped & financed by the EU. Killed as he refused to be taken back to a detention center where torture & exploitation are widespread. Image
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