Thank you for your reading and interest in the news Pope Francis decries Libyan migrant camps as places of torture and slavery and now with detailsHind Al Soulia - Riyadh - Pope Francis has described indifference towards the migrant crisis as a “sin” and called detention centres in Libya as “places of torture and despicable slavery”. He said all detention centres, which are overcrowded and a hot spot for human rights violations, should be closed and migrant traffickers punished. "How can we fail to hear the desperate cry of so many brothers and sisters who prefer to face a stormy sea rather than die slowly in Libyan detention camps, places of torture and ignoble slavery? "Serious efforts must be made to empty the detention camps in Libya, evaluating and implementing all possible solutions," Pope Francis said. In 2016 Pope Francis flew three Syrian families languishing in Lesbos to the Vatican and he has been highly critical of the mistreatment of migrants.

Source: Libya Today December 20, 2019 13:07 UTC