Inside Ain Zara, where Europe's unwanted are disappeared

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The UNHCR, which has limited access to detention facilities run by the Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration under the Ministry of Interior, welcomed on February 15 the release from Ain Zara of 64 vulnerable refugees, including women and children.
49% : "These operations are aimed at keeping migrants out of Europe," Matteo de Bellis, researcher on asylum and migration at Amnesty International, told Al Jazeera.
47% : Detention is often what awaits people who attempt to cross the Mediterranean and are intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, a quasi-military organisation linked to militias that receives training and equipment from the European Union.
36% :Peter Stano, EU lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, told Al Jazeera the conditions in which people are being held in Libya are "unacceptable".

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