Bangladesh, July 3 -- Libyas rival political authorities, despite years of conflict and institutional division, have found common ground on one issue: a sweeping campaign against migrants and refugees that human rights organizations say is fueling xenophobia, enabling widespread abuses, and violating international law. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), authorities in both eastern and western Libya have intensified anti-migrant rhetoric while expanding mass arrests, arbitrary detention, and forced expulsions, leaving thousands of vulnerable people at risk.

The coordinated approach has raised alarm among international rights groups, which argue that the countrys competing administrations are using migrants as political scapegoats amid...