Nearly 80 rescued migrants forced off cargo ship in Libya

Nearly 80 rescued migrants forced off cargo ship in Libya
Sally Hayden November 20, 2018

(CNN)Nearly 80 rescued migrants have been forced off a cargo ship after it docked at a Libya port following an eleven-day standoff.
The standoff began on November 10, when dozens of migrants and refugees, who tried to reach Italy on a rubber boat, were rescued and returned to Libya by the Nivin, a cargo ship with a Panamanian flag.
Many refused to leave the ship after it docked at the Libyan port city of Misrata.

Some of them told CNN they would rather die than go back to Libya where they said they had been tortured. They want to be taken to a safe country.
Three teenagers on board told CNN they had experienced too much abuse and violence in Libya, and were too scared to go back.
In a video taken on the cargo ship and sent to CNN, Tuha, a 16-year-old Eritrean, said he had been in Libya since 2016.
"They sold me three times. They punished me. Even I had my brother die in my hands, in Bani Walid. I saw so many things.
"How I can go down?" he continued. "If I go down from this boat they will kill me. They can do anything, but I will not go down... This is my decision," Tuha said in the video.

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