500 refugees are now held in what was known to be a private detention centre in Alshatti located on Sahara Desert border with no adequate supply of basic necessities. HRLHA has also learnt that the very adverse weather condition at Alshatti has worsened the situation to the refugees. Even two expecting women who delivered after arriving in Alshatti and their newly born infants were not treated differently. The fact that the refugees are now held in isolation where they are not visited by international agencies like the UN High Commission for Refugees and the ICRC until this Urgent Action is documented, as they used to when they were sheltered in Benghazi, added to the very unfriendly living condition has raised their frustrations. The refugees who were contacted by HRLHA also mention that there have been detachments and disconnections among refugees who had acquaintances and/or relationships with each other. Most of the refugees who were taken to Alshatti are originally from Ethiopia and Eritrea, HRLHA correspondents have added.
The HRLHA managed to obtain the names of the following 33 refugees:
No | Name | Country of origin |
1 | Foad Kasim | Ethiopia, Oromo |
2 | Abdi Nagassa | Ethiopia, Oromo |
3 | Derje Gezahegn | Ethiopia, Amhara |
4 | Dereje Tefera | Ethiopia, Amhara |
5 | Abdulhamid Abdurahiman | Ethiopia, Oromo |
6 | Nuredin Haji | Ethiopia, Oromo |
7 | Mulatu Kassa | Ethiopia, Amhara |
8 | Abdurahiman Jailan | Ethiopia, Oromo |
9 | Aman Amid | Ethiopia, Oromo |
10 | Nahom Gebre Mariam | Eritrea |
11 | Hani Gebre Nugus | Ertrea |
12 | Umar Mohamed | Ertrea |
13 | Wubshet Tesfaye | Ethiopia, Amhara |
14 | Abdi Husein | Ethiopia, Oromo |
15 | Mohamed Lencho | Ethiopia, Oromo |
16 | Husein Abdulkadir | Ethiopia, Oromo |
17 | Wazir Awol | Ethiopia, Oromo |
18 | Husein Ahmed | Ethiopia, Oromo |
19 | Amadu Tesema | Ethiopia. Amhara |
20 | Tekie Girmay | Eritrea |
21 | Abdulmohamed Nur | Ertirea |
22 | Naigzi Goyitom | Eritrea |
23 | Nigusu Abriham | Eritrea |
24 | Saladin Mohamed | Eritrea |
25 | Mohamed Sale | Eritrea |
26 | Abel Tadesse | Ethiopia, Amhara |
27 | Gemed Fikadu | Ethiopia, Amhara |
28 | Yusuf Tahir | Ethiopia, Oromo |
29 | Abduzamed Mohamed | Ethiopia, Oromo |
30 | Aliyi Haji | Ethiopia, Oromo |
31 | Awol Adam | Ethiopia, Oromo |
32 | Selemon Desta | Ethiopia, Amhara |
33 | Kedir Mohamed | Ethiopia, Oromo |
HRLHA is highly concerned about the safety and future fates of those asylum seekers and refugees in such an isolated and disconnected socio-political environment. Therefore, HRLHA calls up on the Libyan Government, first of all to ensure the safety and well being of the refugees and asylum seekers by providing full protection against any kind of attacks from any side or angle and allow access to the new location to the representatives of regional and international UN and humanitarian agencies as well as media organizations so that they could receive all the supports they need especially to bring their refugee lives to an end.
The HRLHA also urges all national, regional and international human rights groups, donor countries and organizations to join hands in putting pressure on the Libyan government so that it abides by the international norms, the 1951 International Convention of the refugees and asylum seekers and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 14 (1) “ Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”
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