‘I saw him kill people:’ Libya and Italy’s shadowy migrant deals
Al Jazeera
Italy is accused of releasing Libyan officials wanted on international warrants in return for limiting migrant flows.
Libya’s Chief of Judicial Police, Osama “Al Masri” Njeem, returned to Libya on an Italian government plane after his arrest in Italy on January 19 on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.
His release two days later was for what the Italian government said on Wednesday were “inaccuracies” in the warrant.
Njeem is accused by the ICC of crimes committed in his role overseeing the Tripoli branch of the Reform and Rehabilitation Institution, a network of detention centres run by the government-backed Special Defence Force (SDF).
Amnesty International identifies Njeem as a “long-term member of Tripoli-based militia the Deterrence Apparatus for Combatting Terrorism and Organised Crime (DACTO)”, one of several militias the internationally recognised Tripoli government relies on, and absorbs, to project power across the western parts of Libya, which it nominally controls.
The rights group “has long documented horrific violations committed with total impunity at the Mitiga prison in Tripoli, under the control of DACTO”, and says there is “no prospect of domestic accountability in Libya of powerful commanders of militias”.
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