A flight with 167 migrants, including seven children, returned to Guinea on Thursday, the U.N. migration agency said. Some of them reported beatings while in detention centers in Libya.
“I spent three months in prison. I do not know the name because we never went out, only for beating sessions because I did not have money,” one of the migrants told the U.N. agency. “I have a lot of pain in my upper body.”
Organizations including Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders have criticized Europe, saying its primary aim is to close the often deadly smuggling route across the Mediterranean and leave hundreds of thousands of migrants trapped in Libya and at risk of horrific abuses.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Dec. 6 that all Nigerians stranded in Libya and other parts of the world will be brought home and “rehabilitated,” calling it appalling that “some Nigerians were being sold like goats for few dollars in Libya.”
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