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Africa: Fake Coastguards, Taxi Cabs Fuel Libya's Slave Trade
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 27 November 2017
"They hang you from the ceiling by (your) arms and legs and then throw you down to the floor" Read more »
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).
Protests took place outside Libyan embassies in several African capital cities while politicians are demanding an investigation and the prosecution of those involved. Read more »
The government's intervention follows a UN report that the immigrants, most of them from West Africa, are being sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya. They are ... Read more »
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