‘I am a modern-day slave’: Sub-Saharan Africans in Libya

By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher
In Libya, undocumented Sub-Saharan Africans have never had it easy.
During Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s rule, they were at risk of arrest, indefinite detention, torture or other ill-treatment and exploitation.
Far from changing their fate, last year’s “17 February Revolution” left Sub-Saharan Africans vulnerable to […]