The UN human rights chief says the European Union policy of helping Libyan authorities intercept migrants on the Mediterranean and return them to Libya is "inhuman." He appealed Tuesday to the international community to face up to the "unimaginable horrors" the detained migrants are facing. UN rights monitors this month visited four facilities in Tripoli operated by Libya's Department of Combating Illegal Migration. Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia are quite represented at camps in Libya, but many would-be migrants from other parts of Africa as well as the Middle East try to reach Europe through Libya. This year there have been 115,000 sea arrivals in Italy, down 31 per cent from last year, official data from Italy's Interior Ministry show.

Source: CBC News November 14, 2017 18:00 UTC