Libya: Prisoners' Release

(asked on 24th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is providing to the Government of Niger for people released from prisons in Libya.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 1st February 2019

​We are, through our £75 million migration programme and contributions to the EU's Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, providing humanitarian assistance and protection to vulnerable migrants in Niger and other parts of the region, some of whom have been released from detention centres in Libya.

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