A young man has died after being brutally beaten by a group of men in Tripoli, Libya, after fleeing a detention center.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has denounced the events and requested that an investigation is opened to clarify what happened and arrest and prosecute the alleged culprits.
In a statement, the humanitarian agency explained that the young man, 25 years old and of Sudanese nationality, arrived in Libya two years ago fleeing the ethnic war that is shaking the western region Sudanese since 1983 and was arrested days ago during an arbitrary raid carried out by one of the militias that control the Libyan capital, along with fifty migrants.
The man, who managed to escape from the Al Mabani detention center, He arrived badly injured at a hospital, where he died, after being beaten, apparently by a group of masked men. “UNHCR expresses its deepest condolences to his family and friends, and to the Sudanese refugee community in general,” the note said before calling for “an investigation into the killing to be launched and the perpetrators held accountable” to justice.
On October 1, militiamen affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior of the transitory National Government of Unity (GNU) established in Tripoli they violently broke into houses and temporary shelters in the Gargaresh neighborhood, one of the most impoverished in the capital and home to a sizeable refugee and migrant population, and arbitrarily arrested men, women and minors.
Just a few days later, at least six of them were shot dead by Libyan militiamen as they tried to flee from the Tripoli detention center where they were being crowded. According to the UNHCR office in Libya, the migrants had managed to break down one of the fences surrounding the Ghot Shaal detention center and flee to the surrounding streets, where the shooting took place.
Witnesses told EFE, for their part, that about 300 armed men belonging to one of the militias who control the Janzour area, close to the capital, they managed to arrest several of the fled, who have been transferred to other places of internment.
In another statement released at the time, UNHCR already expressed its “growing concern about the humanitarian situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Libya, “especially those who have been” held in various detention centers in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. Among them are several who were given priority for evacuation or resettlement flights out of Libya. “
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