Libya

EU member-states are "knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities."

This is stated in a new report published by Amnesty International (AI), titled, "Libya's dark web of collusion: Abuses against Europe-bound refugees and migrants."

This is stated in a new report published by Amnesty International (AI), titled, "Libyas dark web of collusion: Abuses against Europe-bound refugees and migrants."

The report accuses the EU of turning a blind eye "to allegedly brutal tactics of the Libyan coast guard and dangerous detention facilities," Tanjug is reporting, citing AP.

The United Nations has today called on countries around the world to accept 1300 Libyan refugees locked in Libya, mostly African, many of whom are being abused and held in terrible conditions, Reuters reported.

The African Union has upped its goal to repatriate stranded migrants from Libya, saying in a statement that it aims to bring 20,000 Africans home in the next six weeks.

Pressure has grown on the continental body and individual African states to get their citizens out of Libya after CNN broadcast a report showing black Africans being sold as slaves in the north African country.

Leaders at an EU-Africa summit called Nov. 30 for the immediate evacuation of nearly 4,000 distressed African migrants in Libya under a new drive to fight slave traders and traffickers.

More than 200 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya have been returned to their home country, Nigerian officials said, reported CNN. 

More than 33,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach European shores this century, making the Mediterranean "by far the world's deadliest border", the United Nations migration agency said on Friday.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity has announced that he has begun investigating reported cases of sale of migrants as slaves reported last week by US television CNN in a shocking documentary.

The EU's policy of aiding Libyan authorities to intercept migrants and return them to detention is "inhuman", the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The UN's human rights chief accused European countries of ignoring warnings over the deal struck with Libya.

Authorities say it has caused detainees to rise sharply to almost 20,000.

The European Union's policy of helping the Libyan authorities intercept migrants in the Mediterranean and return them to "horrific" prisons in Libya is "inhuman", the United Nations said Tuesday.