Libya: Q&A – Why Documenting Libya’s Detention Abuses Is So Important

Boston/Dublin — ‘We’ve moved from the monetisation of movement to the monetisation of captivity.’

In 2018, journalist Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook from a refugee in a Libyan detention centre. “We need your help. We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story,” the message read, seemingly sent out of the blue.

It turned out that the man knew Hayden’s name because of an investigation she had conducted for The New Humanitarian earlier that…