As he was trafficked across Libya with his wife, the young Eritrean draft dodger was held in unofficial detention centres run by criminal gangs. He was beaten, tortured and electrocuted with cattle prods, bought and sold as a chattel. Over a period of two years Milyun Muluburhan, 25, saw friends die of disease and malnutrition while they were incarcerated in deplorable conditions, guilty of no crime other than a wish for a better life in Europe. So when he and his wife, Zayiel, 22, were finally registered by the United Nations refugee agency this year, and relocated to the official detention centre at Qasir Bin Gashir, southern Tripoli, run by a Libyan government department which receives EU funding, they hoped their lot would finally improve.

Source: Libya Today June 05, 2019 16:30 UTC