On June 3, Libyan authorities rounded up thousands of mostly Egyptian migrants and amassed them in the border town of Musaid and other parts of eastern Libya. Libya is the main transit point for migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to reach Europe.
According to AlarmPhone, between May 23 and June 3, rescue ship Humanity1 saved 30 people in distress escaping from Libya. A boat in distress with 70 people was spotted off Libya. They might have been intercepted and forced back to Libya. On May 23, AlarmPhone signaled a boat in distress carrying 500 people who had fled from Tobruk in Libya and alerted both RCC Malta and MRCC in Italy. Instead of intervening to operate SAR, RCC Malta – organised a mass pushback by proxy at sea, forcing 500 people across 330km into a Libyan prison.
On May 24, Italian authorities ordered the return to Libya of a boat carrying 27 people that had been spotted in distress in international waters. On May 16, SAR NGO MSF rescued a boat in distress that was trying to escape from Libya carrying 26 people on board.
On May 11, during the biannual briefing of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Lawyers for Justice in Libya urged the Prosecutor to “do more to publicly state the gravity of crimes against migrants and refugees’ rights (…) that may amount to Crimes Against Humanity and war crimes.”
A study published by Save the Children reveals that one in three girl migrants migrating to or through Libya, Tunisia and Morocco and interviewed by the organization experienced or witnessed sexual abuse or other forms of gender-based violence while fleeing their home countries.
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