CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival governments has said that a report by an international human rights group accusing it of abuses contains false accusations. Earlier this month, the London-based watchdog Amnesty International issued the report, which documents abuses against migrants by a state-funded security agency in western Libya. The SSA is headed by Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli, a militia leader who controls a detention center in Tripoli’s Abu Salim neighborhood. The report said that an Amnesty delegation had visited Libya in February and spoke to victims, their families and activists. The EU has partnered up with Libya's coast guards to intercept migrants, who are usually returned back to Libyan shores and held in detention centers plagued with abuses.

Source: Libya Today May 13, 2022 12:09 UTC