ECRF has directly monitored the detention of dozens of asylum seekers and unofficial immigrants by Egyptian authorities while attempting to migrate from Egypt unofficially to Libya via the Egyptian-Libyan border.
The nationalities of detainees are as follows: (> 85 Sudanese, 4 with Yemeni nationality, 2 Syrians, 3 Eritrean nationals, 3 Bangladeshis, one mother and her daughter from the Republic of Sierra Leone), all were arrested at various times while attempting to sneak unofficially across the Egyptian border into Libya.
All those arrested were detained from the time of their arrest at the Salloum police station and then transferred to the Marsa Matrouh Security Directorate on Sept.
21st 2018 and they were threatened to be deported within days.