Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Europe’s Big Secret: Funding Offshore Migrant Prisons

Europe’s Big Secret: Funding Offshore Migrant Prisons

  • March 29, 2022
Clint Watts

Host

Ian Urbina

Guest


Before many African migrants even see Europe, they are captured and imprisoned in migrant detention camps in Libya. These detention centers, while run by Libyan militias, were funded and enabled to be run by the European Union.

In this episode, Clint speaks with Ian Urbina, director of the Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative exploring lawlessness on the high seas, who recently published a piece in the New Yorker “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe”. He uncovered human rights abuses taking place in migrant detention camps in Libya and the international systems enabling the continued operation of these prisons.

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