Rights Group Blasts EU Plans on Halting Libya Migrant Exodus

Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday that European Union measures on curbing the flow of migrants from Libya to the bloc risk condemning asylum-seekers to "violent abuse'' by armed groups in the North African nation.   In a new report, the New York-based rights group said the migrants had faced abuses, including "torture, rape and killings in squalid detention centers'' before setting off on their perilous journey. The migrants told HRW they faced abuse at...

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