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Why the UN still matters across the Maghreb
In our increasingly un-reported World, well, that part of the media circus that doesn’t involve celebrity and assorted trivia,
The prosecutor general's office has revealed that Libya has arrested two people accused of detaining and torturing some 263 irregular migrants to extort ransoms. It said in a statement that “the public prosecution ordered the detention of two members of a criminal gang who deliberately restricted the freedom of illegal migrants." The prosecution added that “the sub-Saharan migrants were "subjected to torture, cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment in order to force their relatives to pay a ransom.”
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