2' min read For feedback, please contactenglish@ilsole24ore.com Translated by AI Versione italianaMigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya are victims of 'systematic human rights violations and abuses', including murder, torture, sexual violence and human trafficking. This is the toll drawn by a report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Support Mission in Libya. The report points out that migrants are 'rounded up and abducted by criminal networks of traffickers, often linked to Libyan authorities and criminal networks abroad', describing the rigmarole. The 'normalisation' of abusesThe survey was compiled from interviews with one hundred migrants, asylum seekers and refugees from 16 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. In the period under the survey's lens, between January 2024 and December 2025, the report between emerges a "pattern of exploitation that preys on migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in more vulnerable situations that has becomebusiness as usual: a brutal and normalised reality".

Source: Libya Today February 17, 2026 14:17 UTC