(28 Apr 2019) Hundreds of refugees and migrants have been moved from a detention centre in Tripoli after it got caught up in violence linked to an offensive led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter to take the capital.
The United Nations said on Thursday that the UN refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration transferred 328 refugees and migrants from the Qasr Bin Ghashir detention centre to a safer place on Wednesday and the remaining refugees and migrants were being transferred Thursday.
The relocation was carried out with support from Libyan authorities and the UN during a humanitarian pause, allowing migrants and refugees to flee the fighting.
Forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter launched an offensive in Tripoli earlier this month, and are battling militias loosely allied with the U.N.-supported government.
Magdalena Mughrabi, Middle East and North Africa deputy director at Amnesty International, warned that there remain at least six detention centres in close proximity to ongoing fighting, where migrants who have already faced abuse and difficult conditions are now in danger of being killed.
Gunmen attacked the Qasr Ben Ghashir detention facility holding hundreds of migrants, according to Amnesty International.
The rights group said armed men raided, some 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) south of Tripoli's city centre, on Tuesday. It said video footage of the aftermath of the attack shows three people with apparent gunshot wounds and others lying wounded on the ground with bloody bandages.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack or what motivated it.
The UN health agency says the fighting has killed more than 270 people, including civilians, and wounded nearly 1,300.
Mughrabi says that Amnesty is calling on Libya's warring parties and the European Union to help transport the migrants, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa to someplace outside the country.
"We do not think that there is any place of safety for these people, across Libya," she said.

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