Channel 4 News published this video item, entitled “Libya: Thousands of migrants rounded up and taken to ‘inhumane’ detention centres” – below is their description.
They were trying to reach Europe when they were forcibly turned back at sea. The Libyan authorities have rounded up thousands of refugees and migrants over the last week, holding them in detention centres where conditions are described as “inhumane”.
In the last few hours, several hundred people have escaped en masse from one of Tripoli’s largest camps. There are now fears for their safety, amid reports of indiscriminate shooting.
Viewers may find this report distressing.
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In This Story: Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.
The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. Parts of Libya are currently split between rival Tobruk and Tripoli-based governments, as well as various tribal and Islamist militias.
Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country’s official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.
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