The Disappearance of Illegal Migrants, all women and children, in Ghadames Libya Human rights Solidarity (HRS) received an appeal from Ghadames for the disappearance of 16 irregular migrants, 7 women and 9 children
including a nine-month-old baby, from the town after arriving on Tuesday evening, 5th June 2018. Local activists are concerned that the women and children were taken by a trafficker engaged in human trafficking.
The 16 migrants crossed the Libyan border from Algeria on foot. Activists contacted the IOM office on the same day the migrants arrived, Tuesday June 5th, but to date no one from the IOM came to assist the migrants. One of the locals provided a temporary place for them, and the Red Crescent Society provided some food. The migrants were in poor health when they arrived and brought with them a dead girl, whom they said died on the road and her mother wandered away from them in the desert. The body of the girl was transferred to the morgue of the local hospital, according to information available to HRS the body is still in the hospital’s morgue.
On Sunday morning, 10th June, contact with the local man, who hosted the migrant women and children, was lost. HRS learned that on Monday morning, June 11th, 2018, a truck transported the women and children to an unknown destination, and so far there is no information on the fate of these women and children.
Information on the children:
- Infant 9 months old accompanied by his mother,
- A two-year-old boy with two sisters aged 16 and 17 with their mother,
- Two-year-old boy, 5-year-old boy, 6-year-old girl, orphans with a woman,
- One-year-old child and a 9-year-old girl with their mother, and
- A girl, whose age is not known, was brought dead, and her mother “lost in the desert”.
* Names, ages and nationalities of migrant women are not published, HRS will be forwarded to the concerned authorities.
