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Refugees and migrants on a Libyan Coastguard ship intercepted offshore near the town of Gohneima, east of the capital, Tripoli, last year
THE EU has been condemned for continuing to fund the Libyan Coastguard (LCG) despite official concerns that its government was violating migrants’ human rights and profiting from their detention.
In an uncensored document from the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in September last year, exclusively obtained by the Star, the EU flagged that the Libyan government had “continued to arbitrarily detain migrants.”
The Presidency’s document warns that "severe human-rights violations have been widely reported” inside the country’s detention centres and that some were alleged to have “links to human trafficking.”
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Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
