Illegal Ghanaian immigrants arrested in Libya have appealed to their government to intervene and free them from what they describe as abuse at the hands of the authorities in the north African country.

They made several calls to various radio stations, claiming that they are being kept in a prison yard at the outskirts of Tripoli.

They said that they had been living in appalling conditions, but that Ghana?s diplomatic mission in Libya has not done anything to help them.

?The Ghana embassy in Libya here asked us to come down here to a town called Sabbah to be deported to Ghana. Unfortunately when we arrived here, they divided us into two and carried the other half to an unknown place.

Right now we don?t know their whereabouts. The remaining too we are still in prison. Four people are wounded; they were shot in their hands and legs. We don?t know where our brothers have been taken to so we are appealing to our government and Ghanaians to do something about it?, one of the immigrants who called JoyFM said.