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Amnesty International: Europe Complicit In Libyan Migrant Abuses

The rights group to stop illegal migration, EU governments work with Libyan authorities who they know hand over refugees to criminal gangs and militias.
African migrants sitting in a shelter at the Tariq Al-Matar migrant detention center on the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Monday.

European governments aiming to stem an exodus of refugees from Libya have been knowingly complicit in the abuse of would-be migrants held in detention centers in the North African country, according to Amnesty International.

In titled, "Libya's Dark Web of Collusion," the authors charge that "European Union

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