Human Rights Watch: In Their Words - Pylos Survivors Speak Up for Justice
December 15, 2023
December 15, 2023
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
Hamza and Hassan left their hometown in Pakistan in May. Over the next month, they flew to Dubai, then Egypt, and arrived in Libya. Smugglers had promised them that they would fly to Europe legally and convinced them to pay around US$10,000 for the trip. However, once in Libya, smugglers took away their passports and violently forced them aboard a fishing trawler, dangerously crammed with more than 700 people . . .
Hamza and Hassan left their hometown in Pakistan in May. Over the next month, they flew to Dubai, then Egypt, and arrived in Libya. Smugglers had promised them that they would fly to Europe legally and convinced them to pay around US$10,000 for the trip. However, once in Libya, smugglers took away their passports and violently forced them aboard a fishing trawler, dangerously crammed with more than 700 people . . .