{"id":400838,"date":"2020-09-20T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T07:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400838"},"modified":"2020-09-20T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T07:04:29","slug":"libyan-coast-guard-rescues-128-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/libyan-coast-guard-rescues-128-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyan Coast Guard rescues 128 illegal immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI<strong>\u00a0(SONNA)<\/strong> &#8212; The Libyan Coast Guard on Saturday rescued 128 illegal immigrants off the country&#8217;s western coast, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Coast and Ports Guard handed over to the Tripoli reception center 128 illegal immigrants, who were on rubber boats (at sea),&#8221; the Anti-Illegal Immigration Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued immigrants are African, Asian and Arab nationals, the department said, adding that humanitarian assistance has been provided to them.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2011 fall of former leader Gaddafi&#8217;s government, Libya has been plagued by a state of insecurity and chaos that prompts thousands of illegal migrants to attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea towards Europe.<\/p>\n<p>According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 8,400 illegal migrants have been rescued and returned to Libya in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of illegal immigrants, who were either rescued at sea or arrested by authorities, remain detained in overcrowded reception centers in Libya, despite repeated international calls to close those centers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Xinhua<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI\u00a0(SONNA) &#8212; The Libyan Coast Guard on Saturday rescued 128 illegal immigrants off the country&#8217;s western coast, authorities said. &#8220;The Coast and Ports Guard handed over to the Tripoli reception center 128 illegal immigrants, who were on rubber boats (at sea),&#8221; the Anti-Illegal Immigration Department said. The rescued immigrants are African, Asian and Arab nationals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400842,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400838\/revisions\/400842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}