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2021-02-15
TRIPOLI - How much do illegal immigrants suffer from smuggling networks? How do the illegal immigrants get in contact with the smugglers? What is the role of the international community in curbing the spread of this business? Investigative journalist Mahmoud Elsobky searched for answers to these questions and travelled to Libya, Tunisia, France, Germany and Mauritania. There he met with victims of illegal immigration and smugglers.
I want to be somewhere out of Libya where I can enjoy my freedom’’ said Yassin, a Sudanese victim of illegal immigration held in Libya. ‘’ I was kept by Jaber for months who used to rape me. Then I became pregnant, then he sold me to Abdel Yassine who is ISIS member who used to rape me too. I had to pay 14.500 USD to the smugglers’’ said to me an Eritrean victim who faced rape and torture under the hands of smugglers in Libya. ....

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