The database of illegal pushbacks to Libya
Image credit: Sea Watch International
A detailed archive of 800 separate incidents of pushbacks to Libya over the past 4 years. Through these pushbacks, around 100,000 women, men, and children have been forcibly returned to Libya, where they have faced detention, torture and sexual violence.
why
Crimes against humanity in the central Mediterranean
The migration route
In the absence of safe evacuations, people are attempting to cross the sea from the coasts of North Africa to Europe
Representatives of European institutions and states
hinder the rescue of fleeing people, finance and coordinate their refoulement towards unsafe places
Lagers and violence
The victims face rape, torture, kidnapping and massacres practiced systematically by criminal gangs and para-institutional subjects
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