Migrants at a detention centre in Zawiya, Libya. HRW says up to 6,000 migrants and refugees are detained in severely overcrowded conditions with dire sanitation at nine government-run centres. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Migrants and refugees held in government-run detention centres in Libya are being tortured and abused, according to Human Rights Watch which has taken testimonies of whippings, electric shocks, beatings, strip-searches and people being hung upside down from trees.
Up to 6,000 people are detained in severely overcrowded conditions with dire sanitation in Libya, according to the preliminary findings of a HRW’s investigation conducted in April. Most have been intercepted by Libya’s coastguard as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean in order to reach Europe or have been picked up by the authorities after entering the country illegally…
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