“Detained and dehumanised”
Report on human rights abuses against migrants in Libya
13 December 2016
Contents
1.
Executive summary ................................................................................................................. 1
2.
Introduction and methodology................................................................................................. 3
3.
Background .............................................................................................................................. 5
4.
International legal framework ................................................................................................. 8
5.
National legal framework and practice .................................................................................. 11
6.
7.
5.1.
National legal framework ............................................................................................... 11
5.2.
Practice ........................................................................................................................... 12
Human rights violations and abuses against migrants in Libya ............................................ 14
6.1.
Arbitrary detention and inhuman conditions of detention ............................................. 14
6.2.
Torture and other ill-treatment ....................................................................................... 17
6.3.
Forced labour.................................................................................................................. 18
6.4.
Violations related to interception at sea ......................................................................... 19
6.5.
Sexual violence .............................................................................................................. 21
6.6.
Abuses by groups pledging allegiance to ISIL............................................................... 23
Recommendations ................................................................................................................. 24