New York/Tripoli — Libyan authorities must immediately end the arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today, decrying the dire, unhealthy, and abusive conditions in detention centers.
For more than one year, MSF medical teams have been treating people arbitrarily held in detention centers in Tripoli nominally under the control of the Libyan Ministry of Interior. More than one thousand detainees are treated monthly for respiratory tract infections, acute watery diarrhea, scabies, lice, and urinary tract infections. The medical conditions are directly caused or aggravated by squalid detention conditions and ill treatment.
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