UNSMIL reported that 3,200 refugees and migrants are currently held in detention centres run by the Department for Combating Illegal Migration, under the Ministry of the Interior, and controlled by armed groups. Among them an estimated 2,000 are exposed to the fighting in and around Tripoli.
Migrants and refugees continued to be subjected systematically to arbitrary detention and torture in official and unofficial places of detention. Sexual violence, abduction for ransom, extortion, forced labour and unlawful killings are also widespread.
Perpetrators of violations include government officials, members of armed groups, smugglers, traffickers and members of criminal gangs. Only one official detention centre, the Tariq al-Sikkah centre, employed female guards.