Overview
- The Global Sumud land convoy was blocked at Sirte and ten negotiators were taken into custody and moved to Benghazi after entering Libya on May 24.
- Two Italians, Domenico (Nico) Centrone and Dina Alberizia, are among the detainees held with activists of several other nationalities.
- At least ten of the detained group have staged a hunger-and-thirst strike to protest their detention and one detainee was allowed a brief call after suspending the action.
- Families have launched public appeals to Italian and European governments and the Italian Consulate General in Benghazi is pushing for consular visits.
- A Libyan court ordered continued detention after a June 2 hearing and a new hearing was expected for June 9, with eastern authorities tied to General Khalifa Haftar shaping possible outcomes from quick administrative expulsion to longer legal proceedings.