RIGHTS-LIBYA:  Migrants Find Vicious Circle of Deportation
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NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - The government of Libya routinely subjects  migrants, asylum seekers and refugees -- primarily from  sub-Saharan Africa -- to serious human rights abuses, including  beatings, arbitrary arrests, forced returns and in some cases,  torture, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released  Tuesday.
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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A leading human rights group accuses Italy and Libya of abusing African migrants trying to enter Europe.
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Italy is to send 150 police officers to Libya, along with aircraft and infra-red tracking equipment, as a first step towards the creation of holding camps for illegal migrants passing through North Africa bound ...
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Italy has summoned Libya&#39;s ambassador for talks on efforts to tackle illegal immigration after hundreds of arrivals on Italian shores at the weekend.
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OTTAWA (CP) - When Prime Minister Paul Martin steps off his plane Saturday in Tripoli, he'll be entering a land described by human rights advocates as a surreal mix of kitsch and viciousness.
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The UN demands access to hundreds of illegal migrants on Lampedusa as Italy continues to expel them by air.
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ROME, Oct. 5. - Italy has defended its new policy of airlifting illegal immigrants straight back to Libya the maoment they set foot on Italian soil as an âemergency measureâ.
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HARARE, 27 October (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) on Wednesday condemned the deportation of a 14-member South African labour delegation that had arrived in the country on a fact-finding mission.
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A new migration deal between Italy and Libya has stopped thousands of people reaching Italian shores illegally, Italy's interior minister has said.
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The complex legal action is one of the final kinks left in LibyaÂs once-tangled relations with the West.
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Â· 'Street barrister' took cash from asylum seekersÂ· Review deportee cases, say campaigners
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TRIPOLI, Libya Libya said Thursday that it had sent 1,000 Egyptian immigrants home after their expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in an effort to deter would-be asylum
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Libya said today it had deported 1,000 Egyptian migrants back home after their controversial expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in a bid to deter would-be asylum seekers
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ISLAM QALA, Afghanistan  - Thousands of deported Afghan men are destined this week to trudge across the Iranian border into their impoverished homeland -- many of them determined to sneak back into Iran at the first opportunity.
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The issue of returning to Libya illegal immigrants who come to Malta from there is one of the more important topics to be discussed between Lawrence Gonzi and the Libyan government during a visit by the Prime ...
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ROME -- Italy resumed the forced deportation of immigrants to Libya yesterday and denied the United Nations' refugee agency access to the would-be asylum seekers.