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Libyan court jails four human traffickers for up to 22 years.

International News Desk 

According to Global times News Agancy Europe,Libya's ‌Tripoli Criminal Court on Tuesday convicted four members of "a criminal gang" ‌involved in human trafficking, abductions for ransom and torture, with sentences up to 22 ​years, the attorney general's office said on its Facebook page, The global times Europe media.The attorney general's office did not disclose the names of the four defendants, who were sentenced to between 12 and 22 years in prison. One of the defendants ‌was sentenced in absentia.Libya ⁠has become a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe via dangerous routes across the desert ⁠and over the Mediterranean since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.Charges against the four defendants including smuggling illegal migrants ​from Zuwara, ​a coastal city west of Tripoli, ​the attorney general's office said.The ‌gang also kidnapped migrants, forcing their families to pay ransom by sending them "videos documenting the victims' torture", it added.At least 17 bodies believed to be migrants were recovered by a medical service centre two weeks ago from the shores of Zuwara.

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