Charlie Yaxley

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

UNHCR teams continue to try to access the survivors in Tajoura. It’s critical we get them out of harm’s way. Many have told us of their fear for their lives after the air strike, and are suffering trauma from the death of their fellow detainees https://t.co/tkUGA2ghNB

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

This week has shown there is a clear risk to people’s lives if they are detained in detention centres in Libya. Inaction on this will lead to further tragic consequences https://t.co/tkUGA2ghNB

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

UNHCR today evacuated 29 refugees from appalling conditions in Gharyan detention centre. But this is not enough. Libyan authorities need to release everyone held in a detention centre immediately https://t.co/tkUGA2ghNB

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

More must be done to break the smuggling networks that thrive off people’s misery and desperation. There MUST be consequences for people who profit from putting desperate people in rubber dinghies & send them across the Med https://t.co/tkUGA2ghNB

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

The status quo cannot continue. We MUST provide alternatives to these perilous boat journeys. We must stop people from feeling they have no choice but to get on these flimsy boats https://t.co/tkUGA2ghNB

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

BREAKING: UNHCR saddened at deaths of more than 80 people in large shipwreck off coast of Tunisia and renews calls for urgent end to detention https://t.co/tkUGA2ghNB

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

Thank you @RescueMed! Thanks to your efforts, 54 people are no longer at risk of drowning, or being sent back to detention centres in Libya. But they are not 'rescued' until they reach dry land at a safe port. https://t.co/JRZQlLsxQD

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

Latest information is that there are 3 who survived the incident.

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

@Marguer_d @borzou @UNHCRLibya they should be released. UNHCR supports refuges and asylum-seekers in such settings through our urban programmes

Charlie Yaxley

@yaxle - 04/07/2019

Terrible, tragic reports coming in on 84 people dying in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia. 2 survivors were rescued by passing fisherman. We must do more to stop people from feeling they have no other choice but to put their lives at risk on these perilous journeys