On 23 June, Amnesty International released a statement condemning a European Union move to increase cooperation with rival Libyan authorities to stem migration despite ‘their campaign of racially discriminatory mass arrests, arbitrary detention, and unlawful collective expulsions of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants supported by xenophobic discourse’. The rights watchdog called on the rival authorities to ‘immediately cease their racist and xenophobic discourse and instruct allied entities and armed groups to put an end to the mass arbitrary detention and unlawful expulsion of refugees and migrants and instead protect them from any torture and other abuse at the hands of state and non-state agents.’
Read the full statement here.