Dozens of Sub-Saharan African migrants at a Libya detention centre got to their knees and crossed their wrists above their heads to protest their imprisonment.
They staged their protest at the Al-Hamra shelter in Gharyan, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Tripoli, during a visit Friday by Mabruk Mohammad al-Targui, the tourism minister of Libya’s fragile unity government.
“This gesture is a call for freedom,” said Saddam, from Sudan’s Darfur region, who fears being forced to return to a homeland ravaged by war.
“We have been in this detention centre four months,” he said. “For more than a month no organisation has come to see us.”
Most of the detainees are from of Chad, Somalia, Eritrea or Darfur. Many worked and saved for years before attempting the trip to Europe, leaving behind violence and insecurity at home.
But Libya itself is far from safe. Rocked by…
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