Libyan prisoners are being systematically raped as a method of torture and humiliation, an investigation has revealed. Former prisoners have given harrowing accounts of how guards use various objects, including broom handles, to penetrate male inmates while filming the abuse on their mobile phones. It reveals that the rumours of systematic rape being used as a weapon of war during the 2011 revolution are not only true, but continue in Libya today. In the evening, they threw him into one of our cells: "You rape this guy, otherwise, you're dead!" In addition to abuse of domestic prisoners, there have been several reports on torture in the many migrant detention centres in Libya.

Source: Libya Today November 03, 2017 14:48 UTC