GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)— Migrants stuck in Libya while trying to reach Europe are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery -- a crime against humanity, a United Nations investigation said Monday. The probe said it was deeply concerned at the deteriorating human rights situation in the conflict-torn North African country. The report said there were reasonable grounds to believe that sexual slavery, a crime against humanity, was committed against migrants. They found numerous cases of "arbitrary detention, murder, torture, rape, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance, confirming their widespread practice in Libya". The UN Human Rights Council set up the fact-finding mission in 2020 to investigate violations and abuses of human rights by all parties since the start of 2016.

Source: Libya Today March 28, 2023 20:35 UTC