A United Nations human rights official has warned that Libya is deporting people "faster than ever before" and "abandoning migrants without water" in deserts. The comments were made last week during a Subcommittee on Human Rights at the European Parliament where MEPs, diplomats and UN human rights officials discussed the matter of refugees and migrants in Libya. Human rights officer, Ben Lewis, said that Libya's*Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM) is carrying out the removals, and likely expelling far higher numbers of people than its official figures show. Lewis said: "According to one Libyan official, DCIM is now and I quote, deporting more people faster than ever before." Migrants without any water supplies are subsequently being forced by DCIM across […]
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