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06-11-2015, 02:30 PM
Inside hellish Libyan prison for captured migrants - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-hellish-libyan-prison-for-captured-migrants/)
If there's a hell on our Earth, it may well be the stinking, squalid Libyan prison in Misrata, where migrants caught trying to get to Europe are locked up for months on end, waiting to be deported, reports CBS News correspondent Holly Williams.
Packed 50 to a room, they're infested with lice and sometimes beaten by the Libyan guards.
Many of the inmates paid human smugglers to get them across the Mediterranean Sea, but like Sulayman Saidy from Gambia, instead, they were picked up by the Libyan Coastguard.
"I want to go to Europe because I want to help my family, I want to help my relatives," he said.
At just 22, Saidy's crime was to dream of finding a job in Europe, to support his six brothers and sisters at home.
Just this past weekend, about 6,000 migrants with the same objective were rescued in the Mediterranean by ships from various European nations.
If there's a hell on our Earth, it may well be the stinking, squalid Libyan prison in Misrata, where migrants caught trying to get to Europe are locked up for months on end, waiting to be deported, reports CBS News correspondent Holly Williams.
Packed 50 to a room, they're infested with lice and sometimes beaten by the Libyan guards.
Many of the inmates paid human smugglers to get them across the Mediterranean Sea, but like Sulayman Saidy from Gambia, instead, they were picked up by the Libyan Coastguard.
"I want to go to Europe because I want to help my family, I want to help my relatives," he said.
At just 22, Saidy's crime was to dream of finding a job in Europe, to support his six brothers and sisters at home.
Just this past weekend, about 6,000 migrants with the same objective were rescued in the Mediterranean by ships from various European nations.