UN experts seek to verify mass graves for migrants in Libya

By SAMY MAGDY and JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body on Wednesday painted a grim picture for migrants in Libya, just days after saying they were looking into claims that mass graves have been found at a human trafficking center in the African country’s northwest. The chief investigator says they documented “consistent patterns of serious human rights violations” against migrants in government-run detention centers and trafficking hubs. Investigators found that in the northwestern town of Bani Walid, “migrants were held captive, murdered, tortured and raped.” Libya has in recent years emerged as a popular but extremely dangerous route toward Europe for those fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Mideast.