AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK, MAY 3, 2018 —Hundreds of migrants and refugees are being held in a dangerously overcrowded detention center in Libya, without adequate food or water and in inhumane conditions, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. The situation is deteriorating daily as more refugees and migrants are arbitrarily detained, including more than 500 people in the last 15 days alone. However, there is no solution in sight for many of the estimated 800 people who remain in the detention center in Zuwara. A large number of refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers in Zuwara have already endured alarming levels of violence and exploitation in Libya and during harrowing journeys from their home countries. "MSF calls again for an end to the arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Libya," Kleijer said.

Source: Libya Today May 03, 2018 21:45 UTC