PUK MP Efforts Return Home Seven Youngsters Detained in Libya

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PUK MP Badriya Hussein with the returned youngsters.

Seven Kurdish youngsters who were captured by Libyan militias en route to Europe were repatriated to the Kurdistan Region thanks to the efforts of Badriya Hussein, a member of the Iraqi Parliament from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) bloc.

MP Hussein told PUKMEDIA: "I went to Chwarqurna, to see the families whose sons were recently taken captives by Libyan militias and their lives were in danger."

She added: "When the families came to see me, I promised them that I would do everything in my power to ensure their sons returned safely. Prior to their safe return to their families yesterday, I had continuous communication with the Iraqi ambassador in Libya."

The returned youngsters thanked the PUK MP and one of them said: "We are grateful to PUK MP Badriya Hussein for saving us from that misery. We spent around a month and a half in detention in Libya. Our lives were in danger."

Every year, thousands of young people from the Kurdistan Region migrate abroad via illegal roads; some fall prey to the illegal roads, while others spend years behind bars and face an uncertain fate.



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