It has previously been dramatized, most famously in the 1993 U.S. film "Alive," starring Ethan Hawke. "We did not fight each other, because we were fighting death," he told AFP after the screening. His script combines the real-life ordeals of three migrants including Kouassi, who trekked across the Sahara from Ivory Coast around 18 years ago. And you cannot help," he told AFP before the screening. The film portrays graphic scenes of torture, and Kouassi recalls fellow inmates "killed in the prison, in the cells."

Source: Libya Today October 29, 2023 21:30 UTC