(29 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 29 January 2025
1. Migrants from South Sudan and Sudan preparing for press conference at Italian parliament
2. David Yambio and Lam Magok
3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Yambio, Refugees in Libya Spokesperson:
"But right now, the person, my torturer, the torturer of Lam is no longer here (Italy) and we are speaking in his absence. And he’s in this state (Libya) where he will continue to commit more crimes. This book was written by a Swedish journalist in 2020. Within this period I’m here inside the lager (concentration camp). This is Lam sitting here inside Triq-al-Sika. And this is me being forced to load munitions inside Mitiga by (Libyan warlord Ossama) al-Masri."
4. Close of phone where journalist is taking notes
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Yambio, Refugees in Libya Spokesperson:
"In all this, the things that I saw, the things that happened to me on my body, how I was whipped, how I saw many migrants, including the Libyan people, get killed, is what gave me the wish to call for justice. When I was with Lam in Mitiga, I was telling him one day we will achieve justice. I was hiding. I was risking my life to communicate with journalists during the war, during my time in the lager. And this is what we are having today. A huge betrayal, a huge disappointment."
6. Leader of Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, listening
7. Wide of journalists and politicians at press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lam Magok, migrant from South Sudan:
"And the police at the same time were calling al-Masri to come and see those migrants who escaped. And he was coming with a pistol in the hands. And he start(ed) beating us with his soldiers. They took us to rooms. They put me in a room for five days, and they were torturing me. Al-Masri did this to me and to others."
9. Journalists and politicians at press conference
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahamat Daoud, 27-year-old migrant from Sudan:
"In 2021, while we were protesting in front of UNHCR office, we have been destroyed our peaceful protest and took to Ain Zara prison, where the responsible of that Ain Zara prison is al-Masri himself. Many who were trying to flee and escape from that prison also been captured and beaten and tortured, some of them raped whom are women and men as well, children."
11. Woman taking notes on tablet
12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Yambio, Refugees in Libya Spokesperson
“I would like to entrust this letter, which we designed to the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but this I would like to give it to Nicola Fratoianni (Italian MP) and I hope he can extend our voice and our message to arrive to her.”
13. Wide of press conference
14. Wide of Italian parliament
15. Italian and European flags on Italian parliament
STORYLINE:
Migrants who were tortured by a notorious Libyan warlord that Italy recently repatriated to Libya recounted their anguish in a press conference at the Italian parliament on Wednesday.
The migrants from South Sudan and Sudan spoke of getting whipped and tortured and seeing women and children raped in Libyan prisons runs by Ossama al-Masri.
“I was whipped, I saw many migrants, including the Libyan people, get killed,” explained David Yambio of the Refugees for Justice non-profit.
He called the decision by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government to ignore an International Criminal Court arrest warrant and repatriate al-Masri to Libya “a huge betrayal, a huge disappointment."
Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against Premier Giorgia Meloni and two government ministers over the repatriation.
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