EU funding is facilitating the commission of abuses against migrants in Libya who are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery. The warning came out of a probe by the United Nations which said that the European Union had given support to organisations that have “aided and abetted the commission of the crimes.” The investigation found that there were grounds to believe that migrants have been targeted by state security forces and armed militia groups in detention centres under the control of Libya’s Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCMI) and Libya’s coast guard. “These entities receive technical, logistic and monetary support from the European Union and its member states for the interception and return of migrants,” said the UN … Continue reading EU facilitating abuses against migrants in Libya, says UN probe