Rampant abuse by armed groups is driving refugees to risk their lives in treacherous Mediterranean crossings,says human rights groupWhen the 17-year-old boy, who had been locked in a house for months near Sabha in Libya, or said his family in Ivory Coast could not pay for his release,his captors showed no mercy.They tortured us to force us to call our relatives to extort money from them. whether you don’t pay, you don’t move out ... I told [the head of the ‘prison’] that I did not have any family members, or that all of them had died. He answered: ‘You will join them in death whether you don’t pay.’ I started crying,and so they started beating me with a belt and a broomstick,” he said.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com