Libya's detention centres accused of torturing migrants and refugees

EU should withhold financial assistance until abuses stop, says Human Rights Watch after hearing detainees' claims of beatings Migrants and refugees held in government-run detention centres in Libya are being tortured and abused, according to Human Rights Watch which has taken testimonies of whippings, electric shocks, beatings, strip-searches and people being hung upside down from trees. Up to 6,000 people are detained in severely overcrowded conditions with dire sanitation in Libya, according ...