Thank you for reading the news about Italy faces complaint at UN over ‘abusive’ Libya asylum returns and now with the detailsJeddah - Yasmine El Tohamy - GENEVA: Campaigners filed a complaint with the UN on Wednesday against Italy over a teenage migrant who was sent back to Libya in 2018 along with other migrants, where he was shot, beaten and subjected to forced labor. The complaint maintains that Italy and other states have turned private merchant vessels into instruments of so-called refoulement — returning asylum seekers to places where they risk persecution and torture — which is illegal under international law. “Our legal complaint is targeting Italy’s attempt to abdicate its responsibilities by privatising the push-back of migrants to a nightmare environment in Libya,” O Cuinn said. Some 40,000 refugees and asylum seekers also live outside detention centers in urban areas in Libya, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). These were the details of the news Italy faces complaint at UN over ‘abusive’ Libya asylum returns for this day.

Source: Libya Today December 18, 2019 14:26 UTC