African migrants trying to reach Europe are being sold into slavery in Libya, including for sex, for as little as $200, international monitors said Tuesday, citing testimony from victims. Having paid human traffickers in the hope of finding a better life many instead were held hostage and their families extorted for ransom. The International Organization for Migration said "slave market conditions" and detention were increasingly common as criminal gangs sought to cash in. "Selling human beings is becoming a trend among smugglers as the smuggling networks in Libya are becoming stronger," Othman Belbeisi, the IOM's chief of mission in Libya, told reporters in Geneva. "Migrants ... are being sold in markets as a commodity" at a going rate of between $200 and $500 a head, he said. While some migrants sold this way managed to escape, many wallowed in captivity for months before being bought free or sold on. The U.N. agency could not provide statistics over how many people were affected, but relied on accounts provided to its staff on the ground. In one case, a Senegalese migrant identified only as S.C., told IOM staff he had been held captive for months after he made the perilous journey to Libya. After paying a trafficker more than $300 to arrange for him to be driven through the desert, he was apparently conned when he arrived in Libya, with a truck driver saying the trafficker never paid him the money.
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Posted: at 12-04-2017 10:28 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Slimchery at 12-04-2017 11:30 AM (7 years ago) (m)
This news is a big fat lie, nobody will sell a girl in Libya for $200 , I know this because I was there before so reframe your lie
Posted: at 12-04-2017 11:30 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Slimchery at 12-04-2017 11:56 AM (7 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Mykie010 on 12-04-2017 11:46 AM
so u be lybia burger,no wonder.
Yeah so proud of it and I have been to many countries after I started my journey in 2009 with Libya and that country thought me many things than Nigeria my country. so you still live in nigeria, no wonder suleman dey brainwash you
Posted: at 12-04-2017 11:56 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Slimchery at 12-04-2017 11:58 AM (7 years ago) (m)
there's no market Libya they sell blacks or any race in human, even people hide and Libya is not a free country were you can do things of your own or as you like, ask any Libya burgers they will tell you so go back and reframe your post
Posted: at 12-04-2017 11:58 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
there's no market Libya they sell blacks or any race in human, even people hide and Libya is not a free country were you can do things of your own or as you like, ask any Libya burgers they will tell you so go back and reframe your post
I don't undestand why u are so so sure of where I live,u just left Nigeria 2009,bf u thought of travelling abroad,I was already tired of living in abroad,right now I shuttle BTW Nig and d world.make no mistake.
Posted: at 12-04-2017 03:34 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
there's no market Libya they sell blacks or any race in human, even people hide and Libya is not a free country were you can do things of your own or as you like, ask any Libya burgers they will tell you so go back and reframe your post
guy the story na naked truth. Africans are wicked die.
Posted: at 12-04-2017 03:42 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Yeah so proud of it and I have been to many countries after I started my journey in 2009 with Libya and that country thought me many things than Nigeria my country. so you still live in nigeria, no wonder suleman dey brainwash you
there's no market Libya they sell blacks or any race in human, even people hide and Libya is not a free country were you can do things of your own or as you like, ask any Libya burgers they will tell you so go back and reframe your post
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Posted: at 12-04-2017 04:34 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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