JAKARTA - As many as 100 foreign nationals detained by criminal gangsters in eastern Libya were released without ransom on Monday, July 14 local time.
"A criminal group involved in organizing migrant smuggling, seizing their freedom, trading them, and torturing them to force their families to pay the ransom for their release," the Libyan state attorney general said.
The detained foreign nationals included five women.
Libya is known to have become a transit route to Europe for foreign nationals fleeing conflict and poverty. They were desperate, via dangerous routes across the desert and across the Mediterranean Sea after the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Many foreign nationals are desperate to cross into Europe and are then detained by perpetrators of criminal acts of trafficking in persons (TPPO) to exploitation.
The average foreign national is being held in Ajdabiya, about 160 km (100 miles) from Libya's second city, Benghazi.
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