Bashar Deeb News Today

Overcrowded detention centres, beatings and ransom, and the occasional killing out at sea – meet the Libyan militia pulling back refugees in the Central Mediterranean

A shadowy militia knee-deep in human smuggling keeps pulling migrants back to Libya from the Maltese SAR, detaining them until a smuggler buys their freedom • Both Malta and Frontex have given coordinates to this militia

A look into how journalists verified a recording of a Maltese AFM official passing on migrant coordinates to a Libyan militia

The trade enriches sanctioned oligarchs, war profiteers, and the Syrian government, but has continued thanks to legal loopholes. By Mohammad Bassiki | BLiTZ

The Continent’s response to those fleeing Ukraine should be the rule — not the exception.