Migrants, Stuck in Libya, Demand Evacuation as Conflict Escalates
Published on: Sunday 07 July 2019
“We don’t need to eat,” said a young man held in a Libyan detention center five days after the compound was bombed killing more than 50 people and injuring at least 130. “We didn’t touch the food. We need to be out of Libya.”
The hunger strike in the detention center was on its third day Sunday, according to the protester communicating with VOA via phone and social media. He sent pictures of detainees holding signs like “We are in the grave” and “Save us from the next bomb.
News source: https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/migrants-stuck-libya-demand-evacuation-conflict-escalates
