Fake Coastguards, Taxis Fuel Libya's Slave Trade

Repatriated migrants say traffickers in Libya work with a network of taxi drivers who are supposed to transfer released migrants to camps - but they are often resold.

Migrants at a Tripoli camp (file photo).

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