Efforts of SOHR and Libyan institution | Stability Support Service issues resolution to close sheltering centre holding hundreds of Syrians
The Stability Support Service in Libya issued a resolution to close Al-Maya sheltering centre, following efforts of SOHR and the National Human Rights in Libya, where a letter was sent to the head of the Libyan Presidential Council and the Attorney General to demand the closure of a sheltering centre for refugees in Al-Maya city.
Both sides advised the head of the Stability Support Service regarding the closure of the shelter and respecting the terms of the Agency for Combating Illegal Immigration.
The number of those detained in Al-Maya is evaluated approximately at 1,500 people of Syrian, Egyptian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Bangladeshi nationalities and other nationalities.”
On February 16, the Libyan authorities have been detaining 22 Syrians including three children in a detention center for over four months, for entering Libya legally according to the Libyan regime.
According to reliable SOHR sources, the Libyan authorities detained them on November 13, 2022, where they were put for three months in Malita prison, ten days in Sarman prison and 15 days in Jadaaim until February 16.
Moreover, the refugees entered through Banina airport and airlines of Ajnehat Al-Sham, and headed towards the western area, where a doctor, a university professor and three minors with one of them who had an amputated leg, were among those detained.
The Libyan authorities issued, through Al-Ogailat court, against them a verdict of deportation and fined them on 31/10/2022, where the fine reached 600 Libyan Dinars.
The detained people suffer from scabies, skin diseases, shortage of water, poor hygiene, shortage of medicine, poor health care and lack of clothes for heating. Meanwhile, it is difficult for them to contact their families or appoint a lawyer, amid fears of the minors developing chronic diseases due to the scabies and poor hygiene.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calls on the Libyan authorities to release the detained and minor Syrians and settle their conditions according to the law without depriving them of their freedom in light of their unrealistic return to Syria in fear for their lives.
Reliable sources informed SOHR that tens of Syrian migrants were detained in a detention centre in west Libya, where they had been arrested while they were attempting to sneak into Europe in a dilapidated boat. Meanwhile, international and local authorities continue their shameful silence and inaction towards the crisis of those Syrian migrants who attempted to flee from the war and its scourges in their homeland.
