The New Yorker published a long investigation by the US journalist Ian Urbina, who said he was kidnapped and imprisoned in Libya while he was investigating the detention camps where migrants trying to reach Europe by sea are held. Urbina was investigating the story of Aliou Candè, a 28-year-old migrant from Guinea-Bissau who died last April in Al Mabani, a detention center for migrants opened in Libya in January. Candè had been imprisoned in Al Mabani after he tried to reach Europe along with a hundred other migrants aboard a rubber dinghy. However, the dinghy had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, and the migrants transferred to Al Mabani. Here in Libya we punish espionage with death », a man had told him several times, even pointing a gun to his head.

Source: Libya Today December 01, 2021 09:17 UTC