The database of illegal pushbacks to Libya

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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.

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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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