The passengers of the vessel denied entrance off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy on July 1st were Eritrean. Eritrean refugees who now risk being repatriated or held indeterminately in Libyan prisons where they have already been arrested. Sixty-five men are in the detention camp Zuwarah while nine women are being held in the women's camp Zawiyah, west of Tripoli.
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