Nearly 120 asylum seekers have been evacuated from Libya to Rwanda in the first such flight of the year.
The group of men, women, and children – the youngest less than one-year-old – were from Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia.
Most had been living in urban areas of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, and others had been arbitrarily held in detention, some for several months.
The group evacuated on Tuesday night will join another 269 refugees and asylum seekers in Gashora, where the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) provides assistance including shelter, food and medical care
Detainees in various Libyan migrant centres have previously described routine torture, rape, malnutrition and the spread of diseases like tuberculosis because of conditions they are forced to endure there.
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