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Thousands of refugees and migrants plead for Libya evacuation

Appeals at Tripoli sit-in come as more than 5,000 people rounded up this month and put in indefinite detention in already overcrowded centres.

Asylum seekers' renewed appeals for assistance and evacuation came as a result of the latest crackdown on them in Tripoli [File: Ayman al-Sahili/Reuters]

By Sally Hayden

Published On 22 Oct 2021

Thousands of refugees and migrants have been camped out in front of a United Nations centre in Tripoli for three weeks, calling for evacuation from Libya in the wake of sweeping raids that saw thousands arrested.

The renewed appeals at the sit-in come even as the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said it had suspended work in the Libyan capital following the latest crackdown.