{"id":12542,"date":"2026-02-17T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:29:49","slug":"journey-of-hell-migrants-in-libya-endure-torture-rape-forced-labour-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=12542","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Journey of hell\u2019: Migrants in Libya endure torture, rape, forced labour | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>A new UN report says migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya are being forcibly rounded up and abused.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><button class=\"article-listen-container\" aria-labelledby=\"listen-text listen-duration\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-listen-container__text\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-text\">Listen to this article<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"article-listen-container__duration\">3 mins<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/button><button tabindex=\"0\" class=\"tooltip-accessible_trigger\"><svg class=\"icon icon--info icon--main-grey-dark icon--16 listen-to-article-tooltip__icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"><title>info<\/title><path class=\"icon-main-color\" d=\"M12 0a12 12 0 1 0 0 24 12 12 0 0 0 0-24Zm-.226 3.225a2.039 2.039 0 0 1 2.155 1.924v.193a1.998 1.998 0 0 1-2.155 2.149 2.029 2.029 0 0 1-2.146-2.15 2.039 2.039 0 0 1 1.955-2.122h.193l-.002.006Zm3.227 15.525a.75.75 0 0 1-.752.75H9.75a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v-1.5a.75.75 0 0 1 .752-.75h.748V12h-.75a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v-1.5a.75.75 0 0 1 .752-.751h3a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.752v6.75h.75a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.749L15 18.75Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 17 Feb 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">17 Feb 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The United Nations has warned that migrants in Libya, including young girls, face the risk of being killed, tortured, raped, or forced into domestic slavery.<\/p>\n<p>According to a UN Human Rights Office report released on Tuesday, migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees are being forcibly abducted and jailed for long periods until they\u2019re sold or kidnappers receive ransom from relatives.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cThey endure prolonged detention and are coerced through torture and inhumane treatment into paying for their release,\u201d said the report titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/documents\/reports\/business-usual-human-rights-violations-and-abuses-against-migrants-asylum-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBusiness as Usual\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060report is based on interviews with almost 100 migrants between January 2024 and November 2025, with interviewees both inside and outside Libya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese violations are executed through a business model \u2013 one that turns human mobility into a supply chain and human suffering into profit,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetention has become a revenue stream within an exploitative, profit-driven system. Survival depends on payment. Those without money are passed along, sold, or erased.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"journey-of-hell\">\u2018Journey of hell\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Libya has become a transit route for migrants from South Asia, the Middle East and Africa who are fleeing conflict and poverty and journeying \u2060across the Mediterranean to Europe since the 2011 fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi to a NATO-backed uprising. Factional conflict has split the country into rival western and eastern administrations since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the European Union has supported and trained the Libyan Coast Guard, which returns migrants stopped at sea to detention centres, and funded Libyan border \u200cmanagement programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Suki Nagra, the UN Human Rights representative for Libya, described the situation as extremely \u201cdire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing waves of racist and xenophobic hate speech and attacks against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as interceptions at sea where people are brought back to Libya \u2014 which we do not consider a safe place for disembarkation and return,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN report cited an unnamed Eritrean woman detained for six weeks at a human trafficking \u2060home in Tobruk, in eastern Libya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I died. It was a journey of hell. Different men raped me many times. Girls as young \u2060as 14 were raped daily,\u201d she said. The perpetrators released her \u2060after her family paid a ransom.<\/p>\n<p>A woman identified as Gloria from Nigeria was forced into marriage as a child at the age of 15.\u00a0\u201c<span style=\"font-size:22px\">People come there to buy people, to buy human beings. They forced me into prostitution. I stayed there for a long time before I ran away,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u200creport \u200cemphasised the importance of life-saving search and rescue operations for migrants at sea, but urged the international community to halt returns to Libya until adequate human rights safeguards are ensured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4287772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Interactive_Libya_Control_Map_Feb4_2026-1770200564.png?quality=80\" alt=\"Interactive_Libya_Control_Map_Feb4_2026-1770200564\" data-interactive=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new UN report says migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya are being forcibly rounded up and abused. 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