The Libyan newspaper Oya (or Oea) reported this past week that the State Security Court is expected to issue a ruling on 26 September in a mass human trafficking trial involving approximately 520 defendants. The trials have been ongoing since at least May 2010. The defendants reportedly include members of the armed forces, public security, and Navy. They have been charged with offences relating to human trafficking and facilitating illegal immigration from Libya to Italy.
Click here for article. (AR) (Recently I have not been able to get Google Translate to work with Arabic. I am therefore “reading” Arabic via these two sites: http://www.appliedlanguage.com/web_translation.shtml?s=dd and http://translation.babylon.com/ .)
Click here and here for previous posts on the trial.
MIGRANTS AT SEA 