Pope: don't send migrants back to Libya and "inhumane" camps

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis connected Sunday made an impassioned plea to extremity the signifier of returning migrants rescued astatine oversea to Libya and different unsafe countries wherever they endure “inhumane violence,” and helium called connected the planetary assemblage to find factual ways to negociate migratory flows successful the Mediterranean Sea.

“I explicit my closeness to the thousands of migrants, refugees and others successful request of extortion successful Libya,’’ Francis said successful remarks to the nationalist successful St. Peter’s Square. ”I ne'er hide you, I perceive your outcry and I commune for you.”

“So galore of these men, women and children are taxable to inhumane violence,’’ helium added. ”Yet again again I inquire the planetary assemblage to support the promises to hunt for communal solutions that are factual and lasting to negociate the migratory flows successful Libya and each the Mediterranean.”

“How they suffer, those who are sent back” aft rescue astatine sea, the pope said. Detention facilities successful Libya, helium said “are existent attraction camps.”

“We request to halt sending backmost (migrants) to unsafe countries and to springiness precedence to the redeeming of quality lives astatine oversea with regular protocols of rescue and disembarking, to warrant them dignified conditions of life, alternatives to detention, regular paths of migration and entree to asylum procedures,” Francis said.

Italy and Malta person travel nether disapproval by quality rights advocates for leaving migrants aboard crowded rescue boats earlier assigning them a harmless port.

U.N. exile bureau officials and quality rights organizations person agelong denounced the conditions of detention centers for migrants successful Libya, citing practices of beatings, rape and forms of torture and insufficient food.