Refugees In Libya, front_LEX launch legal action against Frontex

Refugees In Libya, says it has in conjunction with front_LEX launched a legal action against Frontex, the EU border agency.

This was contained in a statement released by Refugees In Libya.

The statement reads: “Thrown in the desert of Algeria 🇩🇿 and left to die of thirst, starvation and heat.

“Important 🛑 please share with your Algerian and Tunisian networks in case they have seen or heard of these people:

“ON JULY 9, 2024, 52 people, including 3 children and 4 women, were captured at sea by the Tunisian National Guards.The captured were pulled back to the port of Sfax, beaten, handcuffed, and robbed of their phones and personal belongings.They spent the whole day at Sfax port, each in handcuffs.”

In the evening, the statement said “they were taken into a concentration camp surrounded by barbed wire.They were later loaded into big buses and thrown into the Algerian desert without food, water, or shelter.

“On the 12th of July, we heard from 25 of them who, with visual evidence, reached out to us asking to be rescued but shortly ran out of battery, and to this day, the 19th of July, we have not heard from them or received any information about them.”

The people, it said were captured while trying to escape Tunisia thanks to boat information provided by @Frontex to the Libyan and Tunisian coast guards.
For this reason we together and @front_LEX have launched a legal action against Frontex.”