The minister for the Interior, Papa Owusu Ankoma stated that the government of Ghana had received complaints by many Ghanaian nationals on their treatment abroad. This in particular included Ghanaians who by some reasons were repatriated, suffering various humiliations including being flown in cargo flights without humane facilities, seizure of their passports, imprisonment without trials and others. Most complaints had been received from Ghanaians expelled from Libya.

Security sources said that two illegal Egyptian immigrants died and 18 others were injured from excessive heat after being deported by Libyan authorities. The Egyptian sources told United Press International the immigrants, trying to sneak into Europe through Libya, were deported by Libyan authorities to the Egyptian border.

“Human Rights Watch has learned that your government may be in the process of forcibly returning Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in Libya to Eritrea, where they face unlawful detention and probable torture. We have received reports that Eritreans are currently being held in Kufra, Misurath, and Tripoli in anticipation of mass deportation to Eritrea.”