On the walls, migrants had scrawled notes of determination: “A soldier never retreats,” and “With our eyes closed, we advance.” Candé crowded into a far corner and began to panic. The guards offered migrants their freedom for a fee of twenty-five hundred Libyan dinars—about five hundred dollars. The migrants are then detained indefinitely in a network of profit-making prisons run by the militias. In September of this year, around six thousand migrants were being held, many of them in Al Mabani. “I was terrified.” When guards opened the cell door, nineteen migrants burst past them.

Source: Libya Today November 28, 2021 22:32 UTC