BOSTON/DUBLINIn 2018, journalist Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook from a refugee in a Libyan detention centre. “In the detention centres where people who are intercepted end up, there is not a proper registration system,” Hayden said. The current policy of supporting the Libyan Coast Guard has evolved as a result of that decision. In detention centres, people get sold to traffickers, they pay their way out, they get sent out during the day as forced labour. Now it has been five years since this policy began, and the conditions in detention centres haven’t improved.

Source: Libya Today June 13, 2022 11:56 UTC