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Human Rights Watch released preliminary findings from its April 2014 investigation in the country which included interviews with 138 detainees, almost 100 of whom reported torture and other abuses. The alleged abuses, massive overcrowding, dire sanitation conditions, and lack of access to adequate medical care in eight... |
Libya’s coast guard, which receives European Union (EU) and Italian support, intercepts or rescues hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers each week as they head to Italy in smugglers’ boats and detains them pending deportation, together with thousands of others apprehended in Libya for entering the country without per... |
Both the EU and Italy also support Libya’s detention centers by rehabilitating some centers and funding international and Libyan nongovernmental organizations providing assistance there. The EU and Italy have committed at least €12 million over the next four years to the centers. |
The EU and Italy should suspend all assistance to the centers, which are operated by the Interior Ministry, until the ministry agrees to investigate the abuses and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have independently verified that the abus... |
If the abuses end, the EU and Italy should also seek an agreement with the Interior Ministry on how further aid will be used to bring detention conditions in line with minimum international standards by the end of 2014. If that deadline is not met, all aid to sub-standard centers should be suspended. |
The revelations of abuse come as the number of migrants and asylum seekers making the dangerous sea crossing to the EU from Libya is set to reach record levels in 2014. The Italian Navy has been running a large scale rescue operation, known as Mare Nostrum, since October 2013, rescuing thousands of asylum seekers and m... |
Record levels of migrants and asylum seekers have recently reached Italy from Libya. In the first four months of 2014, just about 42,000 people disembarked in Italy, of whom just under 27,000 came from Libya, according to the EU’s border agency Frontex. The highest ever recorded number of boat arrivals in Italy and Mal... |
Human Rights Watch visited 9 of the 19 migrant detention centers run by the Interior Ministry’s Department for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM). In eight of the centers 93 detainees, including a number of boys as young as 14, described how guards regularly assaulted them and other detainees. |
They said guards beat them with iron rods, sticks, and rifle butts, and whipped them with cables, hose pipes, and rubber whips made of car tires and plastic tubes, sometimes over prolonged periods of time on the soles of their feet. They also said the guards had burned them with cigarettes, kicked and punched them on t... |
Both men and women said male guards had strip-searched them on arrival at the center and conducted invasive body searches, including cavity searches. Detainees in four centers said guards threatened to shoot them or shot above their heads. Detainees also described verbal abuse by guards including racial slurs, threats,... |
Persistent violence by guards working in detention centers at least nominally under government control breach Libya’s international obligations to protect everyone on its territory against torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. |
The absolute prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in international law is articulated in both the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), treaties by which Libya is bound. Torture under both treaties includes the intentional i... |
None of the detainees Human Rights Watch interviewed said they were taken to court or given an opportunity to challenge the decision to detain and deport them. Prolonged detention without access to judicial review amounts to arbitrary detention and is prohibited under international law. |
Human Rights Watch also documented severe overcrowding in the nine centers it visited and extremely poor sanitary conditions in eight. In some centers, Human Rights Watch researchers saw up to 60 men and boys crammed into spaces as small as 30 square meters. In others, hundreds of detainees spilled from rooms into narr... |
Detainees needing medical treatment said guards either refused to transfer them to hospitals and clinics or that they did not receive adequate care in the detention center. Some detention center staff told Human Rights Watch they did not have sufficient means to give detainees, including pregnant women and children, ad... |
Human Rights Watch will release a full report on its findings of the abuses and detention center conditions. |
The Interior Ministry’s Department for Combating Illegal Migration should immediately shut down the Soroman and Tomena detention centers. Of the nine centers visited, detainees there face the most serious violence and the most severe conditions due in part to the dilapidated state and the limited size of the buildings ... |
In line with its international legal obligations relating to all migrant and asylum seekers detained in Libya, the authorities should either remove all detainees from Libya without delay if they are found to have been in the country unlawfully or release them if they wish to make refugee claims with the United Nations ... |
The government should announce that guards are prohibited from using violence against detainees, issue instructions to guards about how to conduct searches of detainees, including using female guards to search female detainees where possible, and suspend and punish those found to have committed violence. |
It should also work with the EU, Italy, and international agencies working in the centers – including the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – to determine what help the authorities need to bring the cen... |
These require, among other things, a limit to the number of people held in a room, depending on its size, appropriate sleeping arrangements, adequate facilities for personal hygiene, clothing and bedding, adequate food, and access to medical services. |
The EU and Italy should immediately suspend all aid to the centers until it is clear the abuse has ended. To achieve this, the Interior Ministry needs to take a number of steps including investigating the abuses, prosecuting those found to be responsible, and agreeing on a monitoring mechanism. Under the monitoring mec... |
The EU and Italy should also inform the Interior Ministry that they will suspend all further aid for any detention centers that do not meet minimum detention standards by the end of 2014. |
In mid-April, the Department for Combating Illegal Migration gave Human Rights Watch unlimited access to all 19 of Libya’s official migrant detention centers and allowed its researchers to speak confidentially with detainees. The agency says the centers hold between 1,000 and 6,000 people at any given time, depending o... |
Human Rights Watch visited nine of the centers – two for women, girls, and young boys and seven for men and older boys – and spoke with 138 detainees about problems they faced in detention. In eight of the centers – Burshada and al-Hamra, near Gharayan; al-Khums,100 kilometers east of Tripoli; Zliten, and Tomena, near ... |
Structures used to detain migrants include shipping containers, former veterinary centers and unused government offices and are unsuited as places to detain people for even brief periods. Dozens of detainees told Human Rights Watch they had spent months confined 24 hours a day in rooms and containers. |
When Human Rights Watch discussed its findings on abuses in the migrant detention centers on April 29 with migration department officials, they said no other organization had ever raised such abuses with officials. But UNHCR told Human Rights Watch it had raised its concerns about some violent guards a few times with t... |
In a June 2013 report, Amnesty International documented cases of violence by guards in three migrant detention centers, one in the town of Sabha and two in unspecified locations. Migration department officials told Human Rights Watch they had not read Amnesty International’s report. |
Libya has long attracted migrants and asylum seekers wishing to work in Libya or looking to find work and protection in Europe. In April 2014, Libya’s Ministry of Labor told Human Rights Watch it estimated there were up to three million undocumented migrants in the country. |
An EUBAM official in Libya told Human Rights Watch their work included training the Libyan coast guard in border control management techniques. The Italian Embassy in Libya also told Human Rights Watch that Italy was supporting the Libyan coast guard in logistical terms, including by financing the repair of patrol boat... |
When detaining undocumented foreign nationals, Libya does not distinguish between those looking for work in Libya or the EU, and asylum seekers fleeing persecution and other abuses in their countries. Libya has not ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention and does not have its own asylum law or procedures. UNHCR in Libya d... |
The Libyan authorities told Human Rights Watch they do not deport Eritrean and Somali nationals to their countries, recognizing widespread human rights abuses in Eritrea and the conflict in Somalia. However, detained Eritreans and Somalis who do not benefit from other informal release procedures languish for months – a... |
Although UNHCR registers some asylum seekers living in Libya’s urban areas, the authorities stopped all registration of detained asylum seekers in June 2013, UNHCR told Human Rights Watch. The Libyan authorities should immediately allow UNHCR to resume its registration of anyone wishing to seek asylum in Libya and to e... |
UNHCR Detention Guidelines, which draw on international law, say government authorities should detain asylum seekers only “as a last resort” as a strictly necessary and proportionate measure to achieve a legitimate legal purpose and should not detain asylum seekers simply for the purpose of deportation. Detention is pe... |
Libya is also a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says that children shall only be detained “as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.” The UN committee interpreting the convention says that children must not be criminalized for reasons related to their immigra... |
Libyan migration agency officials agreed with Human Rights Watch that migrants and asylum seekers deported from Libya could easily re-enter through Libya’s wide-open 1,000-kilometer southern border, a point many detainees themselves made during interviews. |
The guards here are so violent. In November , some people tried to escape. They caught them. Then they punished all of the detainees in one of the [shipping] containers. I saw it all happen. They took them out, stripped off their shirts, threw water all over them, and then whipped them with rubber on their backs and he... |
Since I came here [in 2014], the guards attacked me twice. They whipped me with metal wire and beat and punched me all over my body. I also saw them hang four or five people upside-down from the tree outside the entrance door and then beat and whipped their feet and stomach. And a week ago [mid-April 2014], I saw them ... |
When the guards don’t like what someone does, they come in and shout and beat him with sticks. When I arrived here, the guards put us [23 women] in a room, told us to take off our clothes and then put their fingers inside our vaginas. |
Elmyra Pualani Kekawa "Grandma" Pangorang, 71, of Waianae died in Aiea. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Phillippi; sons Steven and Kevin; daughters Mary Ann Johnson, Shirley Ann Curtis, Kristine Pangorang and Arlene Avilla; brothers Joseph, James, William and Clifford Kekawa; sisters Ella Barret an... |
Will the Manchester bombing affect the British election? |
Hundreds of people were evacuated London's Old Vic Theatre during a performance on Saturday. |
The Independent cited police as saying they were responding to an unspecified security threat. The theater ultimately tweeted that "The incident was found not to be suspicious." |
The incident was found not to be suspicious. Thank you for your understanding. |
Theatergoers tweeted that a matinee performance of "Woyzeck" starring John Boyega was halted by theater staff and audience and cast were told to leave. |
Photos showed police tape cordoning off the area around the theater, near the city's busy Waterloo Station, which handles both trains and the tube. Police said officers were at the theater but did not giving further details. |
"We have been evacuated as a precaution," tweeted the theater as the situation developed. "Audience safety is our priority. We are liasing with the Met police." |
That tweet was followed with an "all-clear" 20 minutes later: "The incident was found not to be suspicious. Thank you for your understanding." |
Britain has been under heightened security after Monday's deadly bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. |
President of Al-Quds University Professor Imad Abu Kishek received in his office at the main campus the Turkish Cultural Attaché in Palestine Mr. Riha Erm Jo who visited the university to discuss ways to enhance cooperation ties between both sides in the academic, research, and cultural fields. |
Professor Abu Kishek welcomed the Turkish official, paying tribute to the Turkish government “for the deep relations Al-Quds University has with the Turkish government and Turkish higher education institutions”. |
During the meeting, Abu Kishek cited the various programs and projects both parties have been engaged in, most notably the project of the female student’s dormitory which has recently been launched on campus with generous funding from the Turkish government. He also mentioned the grand Turkish conference that was held ... |
Abu Kishek expressed his appreciation for the big role the Turkish Cultural Center at Al-Quds University plays in teaching the Turkish language to Palestinian students, which comes in the framework of the university’s ongoing efforts to promote international cultural understanding. |
Mr. Riha Erm Jo, for his part, expressed his pleasure for visiting Al-Quds University and meeting its leadership, while praising the deep historic ties between the peoples of both countries as well as the fruitful academic and research cooperation between Al-Quds University and the Turkish government and academic insti... |
The Turkish Cultural Attaché pledged to employ whichever possible means to further enhance cooperation with Al-Quds University, particularly because “it enjoys a special status as a leading Palestinian institution that is located within Jerusalem and is well reputed to have numerous academic and research accomplishment... |
Had a bad day again? |
Let's be honest, we all have those days where even the smallest things can get a rise out of us. It's a natural part of being alive, although not a particularly fun one, but we all get mad now and then. |
Maybe you're a patient person, but everyone has their limits! Something happened today that was the last straw — your boyfriend cheated, they ran out of your brand of deodorant at Target, your manager wronged you again, you spilled your coffee on the way to work. Different things make different people tick and you are ... |
However you came to need an angry playlist, we have you covered. |
Instead of losing your cool at the store or freaking out on a friend and saying something you'll later regret, walk it off to the rhythm of these 25 songs. Put them on repeat and blast them until you're not mad anymore! |
"You don't own me. Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay." |
"I'll never be sorry, won't ever pretend, 'Cause every word I write is the truth. Can you say the same thing about you?" |
"Leave everything that is worth a single cent and just take me instead." |
"I'll meet you in the park, I'll be calm and collected. But we knew right from the start that you'd fall apart 'cause I'm too expensive." |
"And then I got you off your knees, put you right back on your feet, just so you can take advantage of me." |
"Hey, I can't let you go with nobody. Cause I love you, baby." |
"Tell me that it wasn't my fault and that I was enough for you." |
"We were good at faking forever, I get it, whatever." |
"Might be a sinner and I might be a saint, I'd like to be proud, but somehow I'm ashamed." |
"Cause you had your chance and you blew it. Yeah, you ripped it up and you chewed it." |
"Never pick up, never call me. You know we're runnin' out of time." |
"Dig deep, always fight, always win." |
"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to." |
"Well, I'm too busy for your business. Go find a girl who wants to listen." |
"Stop looking at me with those eyes, like I could disappear and you wouldn't care why." |
"You don't get to know about my life, my right, my highs, even the lows. You wanted to go." |
"I'd rather die than give up the fight." |
"Can see it from the way you're looking at me, you don't think I'm worth your time." |
"I'm infected, my condition is I'm always in my head." |
"I'm a girl with a temper and heat, I know I can be crazy." |
"I don't want to hurt you but I need to breathe." |
"Had to lose my way, to know which road to take." |
"How do we fall in love, harder than a bullet could hit ya?" |
"You can't wake up, this is not a dream." |
"I got my fingers laced together and I made a little prison and I'm locking up everyone that ever laid a finger on me." |
Beth El Fattal is a writer who covers astrology, pop culture and relationship topics. |
GLENDORA, Calif., April 1, 2019 /Christian Newswire/ -- After 42 years of excellent and dedicated service, and 33 years as President and CEO of America's Christian Credit Union (ACCU), Mendell L. Thompson (photo) announced his retirement this week, effective March 2020. |
"Mendell's leadership both at ACCU and in the community has been nothing short of exemplary," said Dr. Kevin Mannoia, member of ACCU's Board of Directors. "We are proud of Mendell's Christ-like, effective leadership in setting a high bar of impact over decades of faithful service." |
Among his many accomplishments, Thompson is most proud of ACCU's transformation from a generic banking institution into a premier financial partner for cultural impact. In ways large and small, under Mendell's leadership, ACCU has steadily grown to become the gold standard of service and financial stewardship for 132,0... |
"It has been the honor of my life to have served the credit union and the community in this role," said Thompson. "Thanks to the Board, management team, and employees for embodying the mission of ACCU. We have done well in exceeding member expectations with the stewardship of their finances, while remaining faithful to... |
Thompson joined the credit union at 22 and was quickly promoted to Assistant Manager. In 1986, Thompson assumed the role of President/CEO upon co-founder and president T.R. Partee's retirement. Over the years, Mendell has walked the credit union through a number of charter and name changes and a headquarters move. From... |
ACCU's Board of Directors is fully engaged in the transition process and has retained Carter Baldwin to conduct a nationwide executive search to find the right person for this top executive role. |
Please join us in congratulating Thompson for his distinguished lifelong service to ACCU. |
The man who created the Dothraki and High Valyrian languages on HBO’s Game of Thrones spilled all the tea while on BuzzFeed News’ morning show AM to DM — from how he created the languages to how he feels about actors who sometimes fumble his precious words. |
“When I created Dothraki, it was for a competition with other language creators,” David J. Peterson said Friday, adding that it took him “maybe a month” to come up with the language. |
The competition to create the Dothraki language was specifically for the show’s “internal pilot,” he added. Peterson used the first four books in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series as the foundation for both the Dothraki and High Valyrian languages. |
And he didn’t have a lot of material to work with, he said. |
(“Dracarys” is a Martin original word too, by the way). |
Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen on the show, once said producers can’t tell if she flubs a line in Dothraki. But Peterson said Friday that he notices anytime an actor messes up, but it doesn't annoy him like it used to. |
If you want to brush up on your Westerosi language skills before the premiere of Game of Thrones’ final season, you can check High Valyrian on Duolingo, a course Peterson himself created. |
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