Dutch court jails Eritrean human trafficker for 20 years

On Tuesday, a Dutch court sentenced an Eritrean man to 20 years in prison for running a human trafficking network in which migrants were tortured, and their families extorted.

The court said the man, identified as Amanuel Walid, treated migrants “without any humanity” while transporting them from Eritrea to Europe via Libya. “Your only objective was to make as much money as possible from people who were seeking a better future,”…