"Libya: UN report reveals human rights abuses But Tuesday's UN report said migrants are often rounded up and abducted by criminal trafficking networks, some with ties to the Libyan authorities and networks abroad. 'They are separated from their families, arrested, and transferred to detention facilities without process, often at gunpoint, in what amounts to arbitrary detention,' said Thameen Al-Kheetan, a spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva, Switzerland."
"The report, which is based on interviews with almost 100 people from 16 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, covers a two-year period from January 2024 to December 2025 and describes cases of men being forced to work without pay or enough food, and of girls being separated from their mothers. The document describes "a brutal and normalized reality" and denounces "an exploitative model" that preys on migrants' "heightened vulnerability.""
"It says that around 5,000 people being held in "official" centers after "illegal and dangerous interceptions at sea" are subject to "sexual and gender-based violence," "torture," "slavery" and "enforced disappearance.""
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya experience systematic and widespread human rights violations, including torture, rape, sexual and gender-based violence, and enforced disappearance. Criminal trafficking networks, some with ties to Libyan authorities and foreign networks, abduct and detain people, separating families and transferring individuals to detention without due process and often at gunpoint. Interviews with almost 100 people from 16 countries across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia cover January 2024–December 2025 and document forced labor, insufficient food, and children separated from parents. Around 5,000 people held in official centers after interceptions at sea face extreme exploitation and abuse.
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