Dutch court hears case against Eritrean human trafficker

Prosecutors in The Netherlands are seeking a 20-year prison sentence for an Eritrean trafficking suspect.

Forty-two-year-old Amanuel Walid – known as Tewelde Goitom – is accused of running a migration route to Europe via Libya along with his organisation.

They say his group detained thousands of African migrants in warehouses in Libya and brutally tortured them to extort ransoms from their families.

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