Ghanaian national accused of torturing migrants

A Ghanaian man has been jailed after migrants told authorities he tortured them while they were in Libya awaiting smugglers to send them by boat to Italy. Police in Agrigento said several migrants claimed the 20-year-old raped several women and beat, burned or administered electric shocks to migrants who were kept in a ‘safe house’ in Libya awaiting passage. A report on the News24 site notes that the suspect arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on 5 March and Palermo-based prosecutors issued an arrest warrant a week later. He is being investigated for human trafficking, kidnapping, sexual violence and aiding and abetting clandestine immigration.