Migrants: the renewal of the Italy-Libya agreement on 2 November. Ong: "Government stop it, now they know about torture in the camps"

Unless the government decides to cancel it, on 2 November the memorandum between Italy and Libya for the management of migration flows wanted by Gentiloni government, with Marco Minniti Minister of the Interior, will be renewed. And it will happen despite the numerous testimonies and evidence on torture perpetrated within the Libyan detention centers and the journalistic revelations of Avvenire which, in recent days, has published images of the famous meeting of 2017 among the officials of Interior Ministry and a delegation from the government and the Coast Guard Libyans who also participated Abd al-Rahman al-Milad, better known as Bija, the trafficker of human beings at the head of the coast guard Zawiya.

For this the Kindergarten table, formed by the major organizations dealing with migrants' rights, will send an open letter to the government asking them not to renew the memorandum. "On November 2, if the Italian government does not intervene to cancel it, the Memorandum with Libya, ie those agreements, will be automatically renewed. highly financed, which also foresee the intervention of the Libyan coast guard to stop and bring back on board the migrants embarked trying to reach our coasts – they write in a note – The horror of the camps where the intercepted migrants are locked up has now been widely documented : torture, violence, rapes and other harassment aimed at trampling the rights and dignity of human beings. All this, combined with war on the NGOs that make rescues at sea, has resulted in an exponential increase in deaths in the central Mediterranean, which has now become the most dangerous route for fleeing migrants ".

The initiative is signed by 26 organizations, including Rightly, Acli, Action Aid, Amnesty International Italy, Arci, Asgi, Street lawyer, House of social rights, Centro Astalli, Cir, Cnca, Community of S. Egidio, Emergency, Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, Intersos, Medecins du Monde Mission Italy, Oxfam, Save the Children Italy, Without border.

just Oxfam, in a statement, writes that Italy has already financed the formation of the Libyan Coast Guard with 150 million euros and that, "at the moment, they are in official detention centers more than 4,500 people were imprisoned according toUNHCR, while in the unofficial ones, managed by criminal organizations, they are estimated at tens of thousands. Men, women and children who not only suffer inhuman and degrading treatment, but risk dying in bombs in a country at war. A horror to which we must put an end with a evacuation plan coordinated by the United Nations, which provides for a redistribution of migrants at European level ”.

Even the president of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, in recent days he had asked for "Parliament's involvement, in due form, in such important decisions. As for that agreement, I remind everyone that the situation has changed since three years ago: in Libya there is war".

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