User:Dusenin/Human trafficking in Libya

The same year, journalists Meron Estefanos and Mirjam Van Reisen conducted interviews with Eritrean refugees who were smuggled to Libya through Sudan. The interviews revealed that many traffickers abduct and torture some refugees. Furthermore, they revealed that Libyan ISIS cells also participated in smuggling as well as abduction of refugees.

In recent years more governments as well as the UN began acknowledging the continuous violations of human rights as well as the chronic failures by the Libyan authorities to address the issue.